Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dies. What made Walter Krivitsky a valuable witness for Chairman Dies is that he fitted together for the first time the vast mass of unsavory evidence that the Dies Committee has gropingly assembled, gave it an intelligible pattern. Not the least extraordinary feature of last week's hearings was its evidence of the education of the Dies Committee under the impact of its own findings. Beginning crudely 16 months ago, floundering around futilely at first with professional Red-baiters, crackpots and alarmists, it was nevertheless beginning to loom last week as one of the big U. S. legislative inquiries...
...German Air Force has: rigid standardization. His aviators are as much alike as piston rings, and his piston rings are uniform to the ten-thousandth of an inch. Remotely Jewish, born of a druggist, with experience in bigtime civil aviation, Lieut.-General Milch has such a passion for pattern that when a Berlin squadron leaves its barracks and flies to Königsberg, its men are given identical pajamas in identical rooms in identical barracks, and clean their teeth with duplicate brushes bearing their names...
Last week the Bureau published The Statistical Pattern of Instalment Debt, a 23-page pamphlet, which told the results of the study of non-relief families in 1935-36. Prime facts...
...Close kin to a sensitive short-wave radio is the electroencephalograph. Tiny lead electrodes are pasted to the patient's scalp. From the electrodes fine, threadlike wires lead to the machine which detects, through scalp and skull, faint electric brain impulses. A connected drum and ink recorder charts patterns. Normal frequency is ten shallow, rippling, regular waves a second. Abnormal brain waves, often running to 25 a second, show up as irregular plateaus, spikes or scallops. Skilled interpreters can read characteristic abnormal wave patterns as indications of approaching epilepsy, can even use them to locate surface brain tumors. Typical...
...beginning to have political and social implications; it is becoming closely intertwined with the earth upon which we walk and the lives which we lead. Consequently, since art is in the process of adopting us, it is only fair that it adopt, to some extent, the ethical pattern within which we exist. Despite the fact that Epstein's interpretation of ADAM does not fit our own pattern of ethics, it still remains a solid contribution to the advancement of culture because of its thought-provoking nature. Art regains health and circulation after just such brisk intellectual rubdowns...