Search Details

Word: precisionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Secretary Hull, in formulating American policy, has expressed the national temper most successfully. In a radio address, delivered in his name by the Undersecretary of State on Wednesday night, he explained that mere neutrality is not enough, that the United States has a duty to maintain peace, and that this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MR. HULL AND THE FUTURE | 11/8/1935 | See Source »

Mr. Merivale's Othello is somewhat less violent, a little more gentlemanly, than Mr. Huston's. For the most part he speaks his lines with precision and touches of old-school austerity, but bursts now and then into roars of epileptic passion which old-school critics deprecated as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Another Othello | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

Opened in Cleveland's huge Public Auditorium last week was the 1935 Machine Tool Show, first that the industry has felt prosperous enough to hold since 1929. The volume of machine tool orders ?one of the best indicators of industrial activity?has been mounting sharply of late, and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Power & Precision | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

Commonest criticisms leveled at psychology are that it attempts to measure what is intrinsically unmeasurable, that there are as many psychological systems as there are psychologists, that labels are thrown around with more regard for convenience than precision. Psychology is particularly vulnerable to such attacks from outside because there is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: G | 9/16/1935 | See Source »

This test was a prime part of Project XS-F2-U25?a scientific investigation of driving skill begun with $14,000 of FERA funds last September under the direction of Professor Harry Reginald DeSilva. Born 37 years ago in Pensacola, Fla., Harry DeSilva got a Ph. D. from Harvard, another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Project XS-F2-U25 | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

Previous | 645 | 646 | 647 | 648 | 649 | 650 | 651 | 652 | 653 | 654 | 655 | 656 | 657 | 658 | 659 | 660 | 661 | 662 | 663 | 664 | 665 | Next