Word: precisionism
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"Guns Right!" The Army display, with George V turned out at Aldershot as a Field Marshal in khaki uniform and field boots, was more cheerful. Since His Majesty's horse is also affected by noise, the audience of 50,000 was requested not to cheer until he had safely...
"It has, however, to be said," observed Professor Helmut Landsberg of Penn State's School of Mineral Industries, writing in Science last week, "that our present knowledge ... of earthquakes does not permit any prediction of location and time of occurrence of a major earthquake with scientific precision." Meanwhile major...
No one admits more readily than a good psychologist that psychology is not an exact science. Whereas in a few departments its methods may approach mathematical precision, in others, like research on character and personality, the procedures are just reaching the point where results of any clarity at all are...
In 1913 an enthusiastic German photographer named Oskar Barnack designed for his own use a camera small enough to slip easily into a pocket, yet as accurate as any hulking news camera made. It used cinema film. Nothing happened till the War was over, then manufacture started under the trade...
Matching this piece was Walt Whitman's "Dirge for two Veterans" set to music by Holst, conducted by "Doc" with lightness and precision which it is his gift to draw from his singers without any sacrifice of emotional force.