Word: precisionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sure enough, this turned out to be the year Jimmy Demaret's number turned up. Playing with magic precision around the green, he made Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Ralph Guldahl and other champs look like Sunday-morning chumps. In quick succession he won the Oakland Open, the San Francisco...
Although Dean Landis hesitated to recommend specific undergraduate courses, he did suggest certain subjects as important. He stressed the necessity of acquiring an ability to use the English language. "Over and over again," he said, "I find that many of our students are unable to think accurately because they cannot...
But a driver must use split-second judgment, must take icy hairpin curves with hairline precision at 70 m.p.h., must keep his 500-lb. sled in the centre of the straightaways. Bobsled drivers are usually big, bold iron men.
Harvard's ace anthropologist, Earnest Albert Hooton, summed it up this way: "Dr. Ales Hrdlicka has stood like Horatius at the land bridge between Asia and North America, mowing down with deadly precision all would-be geologically ancient invaders of the New World."
There are some excellent reproductions in color of fifteenth century Flemish paintings in the Germanic Museum. The impressive but small dyptich by van der Goes contains "Pieta" and "Adam and Eve," two classic examples of Flemish art at its best. The exact treatment of detail which can be found in...