Word: precisionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each month 100 Britons enter Jacksonville, Pensacola and Corpus Christi. Like Army airmen, Navy instructors find that the first stages of their courses often prove baffling. But after catching the hang of language, speed and precision, the British students average out about the same as American boys, with a few...
Last week, while planes dropped flares in Manhattan's North River, parachutists attacked Long Island's Floyd Bennett Field, and mock invaders stormed and took Fort Tilden (near Coney Island), the Information Center moved with precision and dispatch. Its instructions guided the operations of 250 pursuit ships, batteries...
Every summer these sportsmen spend two weeks at a ranch, learn cavalry maneuvers from Canadian ex-mounties and U.S. Cavalry officers. At civic celebrations they stage precision drills, trick riding, other stunts. They perform at San Francisco's annual East-West football game on New Year's Day...
John English, also of the Herald, ventured to go out on a limb for the Crimson. "It will be timing and precision that will make the Harvard line superior, though Dartmouth has the better backfield. Frost is my favorite. He's a pip. It will be a very close game...
A bullfighting boom in Occupied France was reported this week by Mexican Matador Ricardo Torres, newly arrived in Manhattan from Portugal. Reason for the boom: the desire of Nazi officers to have their troops inspired by the precision of the matador's kill. But, said Ricardo Torres, the Nazi...