Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following the pattern of President Conant's roving professor plan, the Corporation yesterday appointed Elmor Drew Merrill, professor of Botany at Columbia and world-famous botanist to the post of Professor of Botany at and Administrator of Botanical Collections...
...roadhouse and plastic surgery for purposes of disguise. These details. however, for cinemaddicts who find the current school of underworld melodrama the most exciting furnished by the cinema in the past three years, will merely serve to emphasize the obvious fact that a picture written to a pattern can seem all the more alive, original and exciting if the writing is well done and the pattern sound...
...comfortably on cushions hawked at every entrance. But informality prevails at Forest Park performances. The popcorn sale is heavy. Soft-drink men stalk the aisles. St. Louis expects much this year of Producer Laurence Schwab. Boston-born Harvardman whose Broadway record shines. Producer Schwab will follow the established "Muny" pattern, change operas every Monday during the twelve-week season.* Teresina was a sterile, tuneless start last week but the direction at least was blameless. While Schwab's pretty wife amazed St. Louis by playing golf in scanty shorts and a sunback bandanna, her husband rehearsed tirelessly for 14 hours...
...rattling good story, yielding precedence to no other war novel in its swift vividness of narrative and its sureness of character analysis. The action occupies less than three days in the collective life of a french regiment of the line and in the individual lives, presented in a counterpoint pattern, of a number of the members of the regiment, from privates to the division commander. The division commander lusts for a star of a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, so he orders the exhausted regiment, after only a few hors of its promised ten day leave, back...
...secret is it that old Dr. Kirkland would like to resign and devote more time to raising his prize iris blossoms, famed among Tennessee horticulturists. Last week Oliver Cromwell Carmichael looked like nothing so much as Vanderbilt's next chancellor, the man who will put a new educational pattern into effect...