Word: precisionism
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The varsity hockey team showed the Brown squad Saturday night how to look alternately like a group of strangers playing together for the first time and a polished, precision unit. All in all, the Crimson didn't quite outshine the men from Providence as much as its 6-1 victory...
A Piece of Ice. For all its scientific, precision-tooled marvels, the Nautilus sometimes developed quirks that only homely ingenuity could resolve. A few months before the '58 transpolar run, a leak "no larger than a human hair" developed in the steam-condenser system. An agonizing search by experts...
Later, while teaching at Walter Gropius' Bauhaus in Germany, another childhood influence returned to shape the major part of Feininger's art: it was his passion for American precision, as expressed in Manhattan's illimitable grid of straight streets, its now-vanished els, old New York Central...
New Customers. The growth has been stimulated by the opening of new markets. The first transistors replaced vacuum tubes in consumer devices-hearing aids, portable radios, etc. Now transistors and other semiconductor cousins are manufactured with such precision and close tolerances that a new generation of computers is being designed...
Williams' outdoor hockey rink froze in time for Saturday night's game with the Crimson, but the varsity's forwards turned the heat on Eph goalie Dick Alford and skated to a 9-2 victory. Dick Fischer and Dave Vietze contributed two goals each and Bud Higgenbottom scored once for...