Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foot are the emblems of the Passion and a beautifully unified group composed of the Vigin, Saint John and Mary Magdalene. The wood of the cross is carried out in stitches following the grain, and the background is worked in threads of pure gold couched in a diaper pattern. The design of the figures is admirably worked out in a limited range of colors...
...course of a 1,623-word mass-circular letter mailed last week, soliciting new subscriptions (and offering royal scarlet art-pattern atlases as a premium), wrote Publisher Wilfrid John Funk of the Literary Digest...
...whole House plan prevents a symmetrical arrangement and a harmonious architecture, there is no definite reason why one unit should stare placidly across a vista at its exact reproduction. As long as the site favor a development which lacks the crowded discord of mushroom growth, anything short of futuristic pattern for the buildings and their relation to each other might be employed...
...plans for work in a South African astronomical observatory follow those for extension of a system of research professorships in law. An Athletic program and a list of changes in degree requirements in the School of Education find their places in what seems more and more to be a pattern, complete in the very oneness of its figures...
Warm weather precluded workouts for the team, and trainers displayed ingenuity in devising means to keep their charges in condition. Some afternoons the team would assemble on Cambridge Common to sprint up and down and across the intricate pattern of boardwalks laid down there...