Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Danzig a threat to Polish independence, that the Third Reich could not have Danzig without fighting for it. While reports from London and Paris said that the British and French Governments would advise the Poles to "negotiate," the Poles were determined not to accept mediation on the Czech pattern...
...spite of inferiority of numbers and dice consistently loaded against them, we have to fall back upon our numerical preponderance and upon our excess of brute force. Then we begin to envy and to hate them, and every one of their physical, psychological or sociological divergences from our own pattern becomes obnoxious...
...shifting Pattern of Consumers' wants will be the subject of a lecture to be given this evening by Professor T.I. Norton of the Economics department of the University of Buffalo, in Hunt Hall at 8 o'clock Admission will be free. This is the third of a series of six lectures by Professor Norton on the general topic, "Public Education and Economic Trends...
Certainly neither you nor I, nor any other self-respecting Harvard student would be happy to see our faculty modeling its lectures after the pattern of the tutoring school's effective evening "cream," yet such would be the result if the remarks in your editorial were to be followed out logically. No, I hardly think that an outstanding faculty like that of our University could be interested in merely training people to answer certain specific questions culled from examinations of the past...
...dramatic power of John Steuart Curry's Line Storm or Tornado. Critics have found his color and texture slapdash and harsh compared to that of Iowa's deliberate Grant Wood. But Benton's style, an exuberant combination of cartooning draftsmanship, affectionate realism and tightly organized, undulating pattern, is the most imaginative and distinct of the three...