Word: precisionism
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The doctor took a pair of forceps in his hand. That hand must not tremble. It must pull the needle straight out in one swift motion. The forceps must not grope for its grip on the needle end. The screech of slipping steel would sound the tiny patient's...
This operation was to remove a tumor, which proved to be as large as a league baseball,* from Oscar's brain. It was an operation that taxed all of the surgeon's knowledge and technique, his accuracy and precision. Few other surgeons are able or willing to do the like...
Raymond Weaver's first novel is decidely a success. He has occasionally let satire better truth; he has even let it better niceness. But he has also illuminated the lives of the dwellers in a strange land, the devotees of a strange religion, and done so with precision and tact...
In capturing their second successive triangular meeting, the University track performers established two new meet records, took five first places, and placed in every event. The mile run resulted in a clean sweep for the Crimson runners, and in two other events, the 1000-yard and the two mile runs...
"Sheldon's concern with living speech manifested itself in the foundation of the American Dialect Society, of which he was the first Secretary, later the President. As President of the Modern Language Association of America, in 1901, he advocated a broadening of the concept of Philology. His love of letters...