Word: precisionism
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To many astronomers, the most precious moments in the stream of time are the fleeting minutes and seconds of a total solar eclipse, during which they must make their photographs and observations. It is theoretically possible for an occultation of the sun by the moon to last as long as...
As always, young Callimahos played a silver flute. But it had two more keys than the ordinary flute, could play half an octave higher. Callimahos played on it everything from Bach to Rimski-Korsakov and Ravel. He included the Manhattan première of a Sonata by Paul Hindemith, now...
At 56, Vincent Bendix has risen from a Postal Telegraph messenger to head the $31,000,000 Bendix Aviation Corp., which makes at least one part of every U. S. automobile (starters, four-wheel brakes, air brakes, carburetors, air horns), also makes precision instruments of many kinds for airplanes. Last...
There was a time when Spring brought much furore into Cambridge, and first year men sat up until late on the first warm nights, afraid to decide, afraid to reach the conclusion that would make or mar their lives forever. Today the Central Committee, functioning with well-oiled precision on...
As flown by the club contests consist of precision tests in flying and landing, bomb dropping and aerobatics, rather than speed. Framingham is the nearest test ground.