Word: precisionism
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In manner he is affable and courteous. He receives many people from all classes and listens to complaints patiently as he puffs cigarette after cigarette. When he commands, he expects to be obeyed and he intimates this by giving his orders with speed, precision, mastery.
THE SOUL OF SAMUEL PEPYS-Gamaliel Bradford - Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). A penetrating, humorous and well-balanced appraisal of the Diarist. Gamaliel Bradford brings to his task that curious mixture of scholarly precision and sprightly irrelevancy of comment which has stamped him as America's most potent contender in the...
Harold Barlow and his native team do not yet possess the polish and precision that one expects of high-grade organizations. There is no question, however, but that they have won the right to some additional hearings. Later, perhaps, America may have an efficient orchestra, capable of extracting the best...
The Outsider is an exceptional play, raised above a clinical discussion by the warm emotion of a girl's adolescent libido, but perspiring a little with theatrical laboring. Katherine Cornell gives an extraordinarily balanced portrayal, making the proper suggestion of a maimed butterfly fluttering its wings. Her acting swings...
John Fritz Medal. The John Fritz Gold Medal, one of the highest engineering honors in America, has been awarded for 1924 to Ambrose Swasey, of Cleveland. Mr. Swasey, born in New Hampshire in 1846, is now Vice Chairman of the Warner & Swasey Co., pioneer manufacturers of astronomical and optical apparatus...