Word: precisionism
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Last week, to celebrate its tenth birthday, Lucia Chase's Ballet Theatre put its name back up on the Manhattan marquee where it first appeared. When the curtain went up in Rockefeller Center's huge (3,000 seats) Center Theatre, fans saw Les Sylphides, which opened Ballet Theatre...
Graton's idea was to build a light microscope giving far higher magnifications than had been achieved before, and he needed an almost perfectly motionless base on which to stand it. The microscope was built in 1931, with various refinements added since, and is known as the Graton-Dune precision...
The University has given three reasons for tearing down the Rotch Building: the old commitment to the Law School, the unsuitability of an athletic building for laboratories, and the desire of the geology department to combine under one roof. Metallurgy will be bundled off to Vanserg next year, and Mining...
The amount of new investment in Britain since 1945 is rather impressive . . . More important, this rebuilding of Britain's capital plant has been paying off in increased productivity . . . The government [productivity] figures give an average 5½% gain m 1949; other estimates show that the gain ranges from 2...
Additional equipment will allow George to make the actual touchdown. One gadget, for use with ILS, is a sensitive altimeter that tells George when the airplane is close to the ground. Then George flattens the approach angle so that the touchdown will be gentle. With the GCA system, a special...