Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...author attempts to trace through her scene in the southeast part of Yorkshire the pattern of "the complex tangle of motives prompting public decisions, the unforeseen consequences of their enactment on private lives." Readers unfamiliar with English local government will do well to turn to Vera Brittain's note (in an appendix) explaining the history and functions of county councils...
Gauguin in his break with Impression evolved a new theory of his own, Synthesism, which was followed and carried to an even further degree by such men as Matisse, Derain, and Vlaminck. This theory is a conscious grouping of selected forms with strong and evident pattern, while the colors used are absolute rather than naturalistic, effects of sunlight and atmosphere being disregarded...
...alumni, no matter how perfectly they conformed to the collegiate pattern of life in pre-diploma days, be expected to defend undergraduate realism. A year off the campus and the average alumnus is more apt to remember the good time he had a such and such Christmas formal, the weekend of the Purdue, game, or in the Mask & Wig show rather than the fact that during exam weeks he ordinarily lost ten pounds and annexed a few grey hairs. It is the same with college grads in a studio conference. Confessing no serious intent, they strive to put as much...
While the activities of Lawrence are the principal focus of the volume. Edmonds has deliberately tern aside the veils of romance which have made his subject an almost legendary character by fitting them into the whole pattern of contemporary events. But this is not a part of the general fad of debunking history for in his true surroundings and with an understanding of his natural abilities and human faults, we cannot fall to appreciate more fully the work of this soldier who was also a mechanical genius and brilliant archaeologist...
...their positions. After every three sweeps (for a three-color design) of the contact the cylinder carrying the copper sheet rotates a notch. In effect the robot electrically scans the design line by line, much as a modern televisor scans an image. It does not matter how complex the pattern is. A signature scrawled on the copper sheet would come out faithfully reproduced in the fabric...