Word: precisionists
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...Hodges headquarters is businesslike, brisk but quiet. The General is no spit-&-polish stickler but, a thorough precisionist, he insists on detailed planning. If there has been a mistake, he wants it thoroughly aired when he meets his staff at 0900 each morning. He addresses his officers by their first names, but his staffers call him "General...
...said that they were already in the hundreds of thousands. The work of organization, of training, feeding, maintenance of equipment and all the other details of behind-the-lines preparation was enough to crowd the days and the bridge-expert mind of the A.E.F.'s top military precisionist...
...week, after he was nominated, he casually explained that his daddy was a Republican, and that out of filial loyalty he had remained one until 1924. Then he campaigned for Al Smith and Franklin Roosevelt, joined the Roosevelt Cabinet without giving the matter further thought until 1936, when some precisionist pointed out that he was still technically in the G. O. P. In this respect if no other, Henry Wallace is thus suited for candidacy in 1940. For in this campaign party labels are equally unimportant to a lot of other people, notary ex-Democrat Wendell Willkie...
...lives seriously in the Woodstock, N. Y. artist colony. Unmarried Francis Speight teaches at the Pennsylvania Academy. Brusque, satirical Reginald Marsh, Yaleman, is a son of Muralist Fred Dana Marsh, husband of Sculptress Betty Burroughs, son-in-law of Metropolitan Curator Burroughs. Blond Ogden Pleissner, 27, a precisionist from Brooklyn, is the Metropolitan's youngest painter. Older are: Allen Tucker, 65, who has an independent income, a neat wit, and taught for six years at the Art Students' League. Hayley Lever, 55, who is witty too, taught at the Art Students' League too. Bernard Karfiol...
...were last week. A few miles to the south, near Santa Ana, was a mile long metal tube with a perfectly straight bore. Dr. Michelson had fixed mirrors at each end. Between the mirrors he could jiggle a beam of light. Because air modifies the speed of light and Precisionist Michelson disliked taking airy variables into his calculations, he arranged devices to create a vacuum in his tube...