Word: precisionism
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From the first day of his illness Marshal Foch demanded and received from all his doctors the minutest account of what was to be fought and how. Unlike His Majesty George V, who did not bring himself to chew and swallow solid food while his royal appetite was in abeyance...
The book proposes the next step in human progress. Mr. Denison realizes, with the late J. B. Bury, that to understand the causes of civilization and to direct its future development, the laws of its past movement must be ascertained from history with scientific precision. Assuming that civilization always depends...
The minions are not wholly occupied by Mr. Geddes' public projects. They also help him to make games. For in esoteric circles gamester Geddes is acclaimed Manhattan's greatest. Auction bridge and poker are dismal to him, and so, with the fervor and precision of a half-mad mathematician, he...
Just about once in every New England winter the Vagabond is inspired with a desire to break away from his customary urban surroundings and restore his vigor by a few days in the snowy open spaces. This year the attack was so long delayed the Vagabond thought an immunity had...
Football authorities differ as to the advisability of the now ruling. William J. Bingham 16, Director of Athletics, is among those who feel the "dead fumble" rule will rob the game of one of its biggest thrills. On the whole, however, opinion seems to favor this new evidence of the...