Word: precisionism
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John J. Curry '19 looks more like a watchmaker than a city manager. He likes precision, but is neither a scientist, nor even a politician, student of government. For Curry, the new top man in Cambridge's government, has been for 28 years of his life a school teacher and...
Yet, something like Joe Louis, Atkinson stayed on too long. As the city functioned more and more like a precision machine, he began to spend most of his time at his shoe factory--still drawing his full salary of $20,000--and even city councillors had trouble seeing him. During...
But Pastor Spanuth has ways to explain away such minor difficulties. Plato, he says, was not infallible. After all, he got his information in a very indirect manner through Egyptian priests, never noted for scientific precision.
Forceps, scalpels, hypodermic syringes and stethoscopes are precision-made and therefore expensive. Last week the Federal Trade Commission told why, for years, they have been costing far more than they should. Each year, doctors and hospitals buy about $100 million worth of such equipment, and 90% of the business has...
Unfortunately, .says Professor Thomas Pyles of the University of Florida, the average educated American has mastered the rules of grammar, and his speech is "frequently dry, dull, tedious, overprecise . . ." In a new book called Words and Ways of American English (Random House; $3.50), Pyles argues that American speech is much...