Word: precisionism
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Red Light Parade. To the uninitiated, hockey, the fastest game in the world, looks like a haphazard melee in which someone by luck occasionally pokes a puck into a net. But professional hockey players, who are required to make snap decisions while speeding 30 ft. a second, have well-timed...
Although American Optical Co. makes more spectacles, Spencer Lens Co. makes microscopes and Eastman Kodak Co. grinds its own camera lenses, Bausch & Lomb is the only U. S. commercial maker of scientific precision glass. So important is this fact to the U. S. Navy Department that its agents are constantly...
The schooling ended when the U. S. entered the World War. Repurchasing its stock from Zeiss, Bausch & Lomb tackled a job no other U. S. concern has ever attempted-matching German precision in making optical instruments. Today, with some 4,000 workers and a select inner circle of German-trained...
The rally, ostensibly sponsored by the local Chamber of Commerce to demonstrate the city's faith in Mayor Frank Hague and his high-handed tactics against C. I. 0., was staged with a brassy precision which only the Hague machine could produce. For to Frank Hague, who has kept...
The tempo is set in the first story, "The Brave Soldier and the Wicked Sorcerer" when the note of modern precision's victory over the ignorance and superstition of the past is struck. The young Red soldier returns gloriously to his village to marry his girl in spite of the...