Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world, personal and academic errors of judgment will not be too serious because of the arena's small size. But if you wait for a mythical stamp of Harvard to be impressed on you its life will pass you by. This is so because there is no recognizable pattern here, no definite ideal to conform to. Henry Adams, who understood Harvard better than any man in the last century, said that the University left the mind "free from bias and docile," and he considered that an achievement...
World War II will have to be fought in the pattern of European geography, but there are many reasons for believing that it will not be fought in the pattern of World...
Last week provided additional evidence that the Polish crisis was just one of several factors depressing stock prices. War markets have a normal pattern: ordinarily, a war scare forces stock prices down (because businessmen want cash) .and commodity prices up (because Governments and corporations want essential supplies). London markets ran true to form last week; most commodities rose because of speculative war stocking (including heavy copper and rubber buying by Germany). Instead of following the pattern, U. S. commodity prices marched downhill like stocks (the Bureau of Labor Index remained at its low; Dow-Jones and Moody commodity indices each...
...Richard Kettlewell, one of the first men Henry Ford hired when he was preparing to enter commercial automobile production in 1902, later formed a tool, die and pattern business which earned him as much as $500,000 a year before it crashed during Depression I. Now he is a sort of free-lance automobile salesman...
...Wodehousebroken readers, each of their master's novels is as good as the last, perhaps even a little better. Last week's Wodehouse, both in patter & pattern, they found as engagingly inane as ever. For Uncle Fred in the Springtime has the usual bubbling dialogue, the same jolly old set of characters, the same intricately improbable plot clicking along with the dizzy precision of a circus...