Word: precisionism
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Quartet recording in past years has often been a slip-shod business. Victor especially seems contented just to get the sound down on wax and let it go at that. Not so, however, with Columbia's Budapest Quartet series. Here are four players, each a first rate soloist in his...
But not the St. Louis Cardinals of 1942. In their book, nothing is too difficult. Their outfielders make octopus catches, pick off base runners with the cool precision of anti-aircraft guns. Their runners can beat out any bunt, are shamefaced if they can't make third from first...
The major part of its vast machine-tool, precision-instrument and other industries had been moved beyond the Urals. So Leningrad, to produce its own guns and shells, had to depend on the remaining fraction of its industries.
Shoddy exhibitions of petty politics have been common in the history of the American Congress, but there is no precedent for the present state of paralyzing disorganization. President Roosevelt, with the country behind him to the man, gave the solons of Capitol Hill three weeks to pass a price-and...
Highly skilled labor and high-precision machinery, both scarce, are required to make plywood. Precisions adjustable to 1/1,000 of an inch, and scarce chemicals such as phenol (used in the synthetic glue which made modern plywood possible) are additional problems. Perhaps most formidable is the lack of giant "hot...