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Word: precisionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Earnings. Cleveland's once-booming war baby, Jack & Heintz Precision Industries, Inc., turned in a $2.9 million loss in 1948. President Kenneth G. Donald, onetime efficiency engineer who was brought in last year to rescue the company, reported that sales of fractional horsepower electric motors had slipped badly. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, Apr. 25, 1949 | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

Unlike the diving, the swimming could stand some improvement. It is essentially dull to watch, and the mermaids do it in a ragged and unsure manner. Successful commercial swimming' depends largely on precision and grace, two qualities which are not conspicuously present in the water numbers.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Sporting Scene | 4/20/1949 | See Source »

Essential Sequel. But there was no doubt about the State Department's real feelings in the matter. To express them to the nation, Acheson had already called on Chief of Staff Omar Bradley. Speaking before the Jewish War Veterans in Manhattan, Infantryman Bradley made the point with soldierly precision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bound Together | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

A few general criticisms must be made. The first violin section occasionally lacked precision in both tone and timing. Some deficiency in quality is excusable, yet the Music Club has demonstrated that there are enough first rate violinists around Cambridge. The few ragged entrances are unforgivable, however, and the responsibility...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason., | Title: The Music Box | 3/2/1949 | See Source »

In almost every game, someone tried to bring off the difficult "boast shot". It called for the geometric precision of a three-cushion billiard shot, the ball caroming sharply from one side wall to the other and dropping dead off the front one. Properly executed, it is one of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Speed & Sweat | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

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