Word: precisionism
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Confusing fifth-column talk was the attitude of the New Deal toward the Communists. Veterans in the Pacific Northwest were angered that, during talk of a U. S. shortage of plane-manufacturing equipment, three trainloads of precision tools, dies, and machines for making airplane motors passed through Washington, Russia-bound...
"A good tug of war team of the '80s, whether in school or college," wrote onetime Tugger Gordon, "compared favorably with a well-trained crew in technique, precision and rhythm. . . . There were five men to a team. . . . The rope was about seventy-five feet long. . . . Exactly in the middle...
About 15 persons with eight planes are expected to compete in the various events, which include acrobatics, spot landings, precision maneuvers, bombing with flour sacks, and a navigation contest. A novel event is the observation hunt in which the pilots and observers are shown a spot on the map which...
Through the noisy aisles of U. S. machine-tool plants last week rubber-tired food wagons glided. Whenever it pleased them, overalled machinists, black-lipped and pasty-faced under the flourescent green lights, stopped their work for between-meal snacks of milk, sandwiches, crullers, pie. Yankee toolmakers are brought up...
TAMPA, Florida--The worm finally turned. Casper Milquetoast rose up and smacked down his tormentor. In other words, the much-maligned National League, playing with verve and precision triumphed over the swaggering American Leaguers today in the first spring all-star game for the benefit of the Finnish Relief Fund...