Word: precisionism
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Maybe the phrases in London's overcrowded, smoke-fogged Caxton Hall failed to echo the thunder of Palmerston, the precision of Gladstone or the delicacy of Asquith. But the 800 delegates to the Liberal Party's annual conference last week, and the public which got it secondhand, agreed...
But in World War II's new third dimension, the air, the Iowa and ships like her are vulnerable. A heavy bomb can only dent her deck, but a lucky hit down a funnel into the magazine might do for her. High-altitude precision bombing could be crippling if...
So C.I.T. started looking for an industrial outlet for its capital, picked Holtzer-Cabot because of its peacetime possibilities, its reputation for precision manufacturing, its backlog of war orders, its 1,300 highly skilled employes, its nifty earnings record. First thing C.I.T. did with its new baby was to jump...
This is the case with the Brattle Hall presentation with three notable exceptions. The lovable Grandpa Vanderhof is played by one of stage and screen's great character actors, Fred Stone, whose acting is a fine example of comic technique. He has all the timing, presence, and quaint mannerisms that...
Few cinemactors appear to take more pains than Hoofer Astaire, less pains than Crooner Crosby. Result: Crosby's easy, casual banter is just the right foil for Astaire's precision acrobatics, his wry, offbeat humor.