Word: precisionism
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Last week two Massachusetts Institute of Technology professors, Arthur Cobb Hardy and Sherwood F. Brown, announced a new instrument which takes the burden of precision off man, puts it on electrical apparatus. No strings, no vibrating air columns are in their invention, which may best be compared to the reproduction...
M. Escholier puts in this edition a special bid for the American trade when he plays up to its full value the Hugo-Lincoln story. This attempt in no way succeeds in over-balancing the florid enthusiasm which runs through the pages like a great exotic weed, and is very...
Philanthropy, no longer merely an expansion of good Samaritanism, now resembles an exact science. The famed Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations apply the precision of the laboratory to the study of human welfare and what money can do to promote it.
When New York State passed its Baumes Laws under which four-time felons are automatically imprisoned for life, some States copied this severe code, while others watched critically its operation as a penological experiment. Only executive clemency could save convicts from the machine-like precision of these criminal statutes. Last...
A substantial amount of research has characterized the school for many years some being carried on in intimate contact with the industries and aiming as the solution of specific problems. At the present time, research is being conducted on the losses in insulating materials at radio frequencies, magnetic shielding stirring...