Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...countrymen and American youth our beloved Lindy remains No. 1 Hero, who, by his modesty and good sense, his refusal to capitalize his fame, his shunning of publicity rather than ever seeking to bask in the limelight, is a model that many of our public men might well pattern after...
...single idea. Readers of "Midsummer Night's Madness" will recall how the formally unrelated short stories in that book all elaborated a central theme; the change--usually a disintegrating change--wrought upon its characters by the stress of a hopeless political revolt. In "A Nest of Simple Folk" the pattern of a family chronicle extending in time from 1854 to 1906 is woven about a similar theme. By tracing the fortunes of three generations of Irish men and women, Mr. O'Faolain has been able to realize the implications of his subject to the full, and heighten its significance against...
...human eye (TIME, July 10). Designed for television, the device was called the iconoscope. On 20 square inches of mica were 3,000,000 dots of photosensitive material. Light falling on the mica set up an electromagnetic tension which was discharged by an electron beam. The changing pattern of this discharge could be transmitted by radio. At the receiving end the image was reproduced on a fluorescent screen by a reversal of the iconoscope's operating principle...
...produced by the Theatre Guild). Playwright Wexley bases his works (The Last Mile, Steel) on Causes. They Shall Not Die is an angry review of the Scottsboro Case. On the premise that the rape charge against the nine young blackamoors was a frame-up, the play doggedly follows the pattern of the news from the alleged attack aboard a freight train through the first trial to the Supreme Court and on to the second trial. In fact a Manhattan lawyer named Samuel Leibowitz desperately defended the Negroes against a death penalty. In the play a Manhattan lawyer named Nathan...
...Collis Huntington and Leland Stanford were over 30; while Jay Cooke was not yet 40." Old enough to go to war, they were also too canny. They wanted to be rich before they died. They all got their wish. The interwoven strands of their careers make up a pattern so complicated that at times it resembles a crazy quilt, but Author Josephson's patient unraveling shows a general if sometimes unconscious concentric design, spiraling ever closer to monopolistic unity. Rough-&-ready "Commodore" Cornelius Vander Bilt, plebeian founder of a proudly aristocratic family, trusted nobody, kept all his accounts...