Word: precisionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain used her big fellows-Stirlings, Halifaxes, Manchester. They pulled over Cologne with split-second precision, while lighter bombers-Beauforts, Bostons, Hampdens-engaged German fighters or whirled low over the targets, sowing incendiaries. When the big bombs began to land, the heart of Cologne burst into flame. Shattered buildings tumbled...
This was so big a show that a Vice Marshal of the R.A.F., John Eustace Arthur Baldwin, commanded it. Germany, busy at last on too many fronts, did not have the tools to head it off. When the British planes roared home and crawled down with nice precision on the...
Commando training has had a profound effect on the whole British Army. Now, in effect, every British soldier gets the elements of Commando schooling. Even in the old Guards regiments, parade-ground precision has given way to training for actual battle. The U.S. has also profited. U.S. Marines studied Commando...
On the other hand, the slick, sleek, swallow-swift destroyers (DDs) are necessarily shaped and molded, crammed like a clock with delicate precision parts. Cost of a modern destroyer: $7,500,000, five times the cost of a Liberty ship.
Luminosity, precision, an illusion of floating through flawless air are effects she strives for and sometimes gets in the new medium. Her Naval Academy murals are excellent. A portrait of Mrs. Mullen's son on a tricycle, on view in the window of Chicago's Findlay Galleries, once...