Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...austere epitaphs of Spoon River were more than an expression of honest and fruitful defiance. They seemed to prove that the common stuff of U. S. backyard existence, the daily labors, the aspirations, even the graceless material of small-town gossip and slander, could be woven into a poetic pattern that need not lack dignity and significance...
...causes splinters to fly in every direction. Present war tendencies favor H. E. shell over shrapnel, which is effective only against animals and personnel in the open. Shrapnel bursting charge blows the soft brass fuse from the head of the case and sprays the balls in an elliptical pattern over cone-shaped paths...
First, expressing the unity of God, shows Mt. Sinai and an abstract pattern leading up to the Hebrew letter Echod (unity...
Last week, with the publication of Books VII and VIII. bound together and titled The World from Below, the general pattern of Men of Good Will became a little clearer. But the engrossing questions of its permanent literary value and of its probable influence and significance were as open to controversy as before. Less crowded with incidents than preceding volumes, The World from Below deals primarily with the dilemma of Jean Jerphanion, keen, ambitious, radical student whose desire to reform the world and prevent war is thwarted by his inability to find a political group or a party in whose...
...excited Jewish editors tried to dig up something against him, found nothing more remarkable than that his wife was named Helen Fahnestock. Socialite Dr. Campbell's boldest dicta: "The difference between the Jew and the Aryan is as unsurmountable as that between black and white. . . . Germany has set a pattern which other nations must follow...