Word: precisionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The commander, says Clausewitz, must guess whether, after receiving the initial blows, the core of the opponent's Army is gradually becoming condensed, tempered and strengthened, or, to the contrary, beginning to crumble into dust like a decanter made of Bologna glass whose stir-face has been cracked. The...
As a pioneer of mass production through interchangeable parts, the typewriter industry ranks close behind Singer, Cadillac and Colt's Patent Fire Arms. Today its array of small precision tools is one of the most impressive in the U.S. WPB told the industry last week not to expect new...
While they fought and worked with coolness and precision at their staff and supply work, they must have thought of the American women on Luzon. Many of them, perhaps all of them, were now in the areas held by the Jap. Army & Navy men could thank their Government's...
He has, on the other hand, some non-Raffles qualities, which may not help him much. His precision verges on brusqueness: he's the sort, his men say, who keeps a dog and barks himself. He represents the gent-sport kind of soldier of which the East has too...
Working with the same cold precision that has marked Commando successes in France and Libya (see p. 25), the raiders took over in 15 minutes flat, destroyed a radio mast and transmitter, shot down a lone plane offering resistance, sank a German patrol boat, took several prisoners including six quislings...