Word: precisionism
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The Significance. The polish, the precision, the elaborate grace and subterranean acridity of Mr. Cabell's characteristic style have never been displayed to better advantage than in this, which is among the very bitterest of his books. He is not afraid of coarseness, but he is not afraid of beauty?...
"The new Yale telescope, intended especially for photography, is nothing more than a camera 36 feet long. The principal lenses are 26 inches in diameter and average two inches in thickness. To secure good photographs, it is necessary that the telescope should exactly follow the stars. For this purpose, telescopes...
Even the men on the A and B teams were given a light work out. For some time the two teams faced each other in dummy scrimmage, but no real scrimmage was resorted to all afternoon,--Coach Knox and his scrubs were let outside the Stadium to practice Yale formations...
We purposely left the ladies to the last, according to the order of climax. The best singing was by Eva Clark, accompanied by the chorus,--and speaking of the chorus, it is an unusually well-selected one. It danced with grace and precision, in a few original figures, and thoroughly...
Yet inspite of its apparent weakness on Saturday Coach Fisher's eleven may develop amazing power in the next two weeks. The line is still clumsy and chargeless, yet it undoubtedly possesses latent strength and power to no small degree which time alone can bring out. Also the nature of...