Word: precisionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the execution of the regimental review, the smartly marching men were complimented for their precision by Captain Barker and by Commander C. A. Macgowan, officer in charge of the Indoctrination and Communication Schools. Company Five was adjudged the best marching unit by officials in the reviewing stand in a...
Gradually the amateurish ensemble acquires split-second precision, an incandescent tone, emotional depth. The students, conscious of the miracle happening to them, talk of "Koussie" in awe. Said one: "We're like a Rockne-coached football team. Other teams have coaches who have adopted the Rockne system, but we...
Henry Kaiser was working at the same feverish pitch which permitted him to build Boulder Dam two years ahead of schedule, by which he cut the time for constructing a Liberty ship from 105 down to 46 days. He was frankly indulging in a vast piece of bluff; he frankly...
Many mountings of homemade telescopes are pieced together from the gleanings of junk yards. Clyde Tombaugh, the amateur who discovered the planet Pluto, made a telescope mount from an old cream separator. Nevertheless, most homemade telescopes look pretty good; however much junk they contain, they must be precision instruments. Several...
The U.S. Army was showing signs of the imagination, sensible planning and deadly precision that makes an army great. Last week, at Fort Sill, Okla., the artillery opened a school-the first such regular school-to train pilots for grasshopper planes.