Word: precisionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sol Hurok has another ballet to his string. The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, directed by swart, 44-year-old Leonide Massine, onetime maitre de ballet for Colonel de Basil, had opened in Manhattan, had now begun a 22-week tour of the U. S. The Massine ballet lacked pretty...
Other things had happened. Some may have been accidents, but together they did not look accidental: explosions and fires in an oil-tank field in Ohio, an oil well in Oklahoma, fire in the uncompleted fourth floor of the War Department's office building in Washington, gasoline found in...
At Tulane, Coach Shaughnessy used to make slow-charging linemen jump by firing a peashooter at the seat of their pants. At Stanford, he has needed no peashooter. The Indians, delighted with waltz-time football, have carried out his strategies with metronomic precision, have turned out to be the Cinderella...
In Los Angeles, leading his company of marines in columns of fives, Captain James Roosevelt marched them to the place where the battalion was lining up. At the proper spot he barked: "Halt! Left Face!" Executing the order with precision, they came to a halt exactly in the battalion front...
Because the jellylike body tissues tremble for a brief instant after every "blow" from the heart, after-vibrations warp part of the record. Hence Dr. Starr believes that his machine will never attain "highest precision." Nevertheless it is good enough to: 1) detect early, hitherto invisible cases of heart disease...