Word: precisionism
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There is more than a touch of Dickens about this passage and perhaps it would have been fairer to put it in quotation marks, but the Vagabond's memory is too faulty for such precision and it is too good to allow him to write something of his very own...
The Author. Since 1915 a clerk in the post office of his native city, Drammen, Author Christiansen has had long to wait for anything more satisfying than critical acclaim. His first novel The Victor won the critics, sold only a few hundred copies. Subsequent plays and novels got high praise...
The Jefferson Laboratory has been altered in a number of particulars. In the east end of the building and in the central portion on the north side, concrete construction was substituted for wood. Three machine shops are now located in the building, directly accessible to the new Research Laboratory. One...
Selected frequencies from this precision station are amplified and may be transmitted to all parts of the three buildings. These frequencies, when desired, may also be used as master control of the laboratory radio transmitting sets. Another unit, a 1000-cycle master oscillator is used to supply 1000-cycle current...
Elsewhere in these columns apears an article by the Under Secretary of State which peels much of the gold leaf from governmental careers. Service to the United States seems much like labor in any business, full of detail, clerical precision, and hard work. There is little in his report which...