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Word: precisionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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An old St. Marker, Phil Childs, is pacing the Middies, whose strategy forbids settling too much after the start. Thus while Curwen drops to 32, Childs stays at 35, and this higher stroking should give Navy an early advantage. On such things is unusually abyssmal on such things is unusually...

Author: By John C. Bullard, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 5/15/1942 | See Source »

Common practice has been to deposit a small amount of mercury in each tube from a mechanical "eye-dropper," which was not very precise. Insufficient mercury, Cox explained, makes the light slump quickly; too much mercury produces blotches and discoloration. Hygrade's new process seals the mercury in long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fluorescent Bombing | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

The Crimson was on the receiving end of some of its own medicine Saturday afternoon when Cornell's powerful eight, although under stroking Captain Ted Lyman's boat, slowly eked out a half-length lead just after the three-quarter mile mark. Eventually Harvard's superior coordination and precision allowed...

Author: By John C. Bullard, | Title: VARSITY CREW NIPS BIG RED IN THRILLER | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

Last night, the composer and the musical director, Malcolm H. Holmes '28, conductor of the Harvard, Radcliffe, and Welleslay orchestras, supervised the gaudy dress rehearsal. Most startling feature of the preliminary trial was the precision work by the four Gentt, Frederick A. Jacobi '43, John D. Clarke '43, Cary S...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOWELL PRESENTS OPERA TONIGHT | 4/14/1942 | See Source »

The typewriter industry owns a fabulous array of small precision tools, desperately needed in arms manufacture. But the Government thinks it needs typewriters more. The Army already has more than enough to put a typewriter in every kit of a huge A.E.F. The 1942 allotment for Army & Navy is alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Typewriters Instead of Guns | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

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