Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...served what looked like an ace. The linesman called it a fault and Cochet gallantly caught the next serve in his left hand. The set then turned into a long exchange of service games which ended 10-8 for Cochet. Perry took the next two which followed the same pattern, 6-4 and 8-6. Cochet put on what pressure he could in the fourth...
...match between strong servers with comparatively weak backhands, it followed the pattern that everyone expected until the very last game. Vines, his serves scarring the turf, seldom lost more than a point or two in his service games; sometimes he won without using more than four balls. Even when after winning the first he dropped the second and third sets, he seemed clearly in control of the match, waiting for Crawford to tire. When he came out for the fourth with a new racket and began to hit his flat drives even harder than before, it looked more than ever...
Hold Your Man (MGM). Jean Harlow is the pattern for every U. S. dance hall hostess whose hair responds to dye. Clark Gable is the apotheosis of the heel.* They therefore constitute an ideal starring team for a picture, of which the aim is to romanticize the love life of a Brooklyn strumpet and a petty thief...
...pride that Harvard has remained aloof from the general slackening of standards in this respect, and that an honorary degree from Harvard is esteemed and coveted more than any other. Such a degree, if it means anything, should mean that the disinterested scrutiny of scholars has approved the pattern of a life-time of effort; not merely that buildings have been built or zeal manifested for a cause. The names of the chief recipients of this year's honorary degrees from Harvard indicate that the selection has been dictated by the highest standards. Certainly the recognition bestowed on "Al" Smith...
Nervous. Iowa's cows and chickens were blase about ordinary airplanes. They had seen three other Register and Tribune monoplanes weave a zig-zag pattern in the Hawkeye skies. But they were vaguely uneasy about the flying windmill that landed like a monstrous rooster hopping down from a fence post...