Word: precisionism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Three decades after Henry Luce slated him as heir apparent, Hedley Donovan still professes uncertainty as to what virtues the Time Inc. founder saw in deciding he would become (as he did from 1964 to 1979) the company's editor in chief. But readers of Donovan's urbane, frequently self...
-- Micro-optical systems to focus lasers to the precision required for fiber- optic communication.
*A Harvard Car Wash. An old stand-by with a new twist. Harvard students fly to wherever your car is and clean it with the precision of the dorm crew. The extra feature is that they also remove any unsightly rear window stickers and replace them with complimentary Harvard ones...
Since its cluster of art deco edifices was completed on Nov. 1, 1939, Rockefeller Center has been hailed as an urban masterpiece. Tourists flock to its ice rink to watch skaters twirl and to Radio City Music Hall to see the Rockettes do their high kicks with uncanny precision. But...
Science does not progress through revolutionary discoveries alone. Important advances also occur as ingenious experimenters devise ever more clever methods for increasing the accuracy of their observations. The Nobel Prize in Physics this year celebrates the contributions of three scientists who have spent their careers elevating precision measurement to a...