Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Margoliouth's Wordsworth and Coleridge, back with a new eye to Hazlitt's My First Acquaintance with Poets, to De Quincey . . . The advantage of reading of this kind is that it takes you through life continually opening up new vistas of old country, slowly filling in a pattern of memories and emotions and associations such as no strictly formalized reading can give...
Batlle is Uruguay's most honored name. Jose Batlle y Ordonez, as President in 1907, astounded Uruguay, and set the democratic pattern that has prevailed ever since, by peaceably turninsr over office to his elected successor. The great man favored his nephew Luis over his own sons, and passed along to Luis the political know-how that made him a Congressman at 25. In 1946, before Uruguay's 1951 adoption of a council as its executive, he was elected Vice President, gaining the top office (and the nickname "Trumancito") when the President died a year later...
Magazine-Concept. Committed to still more spectaculars between now and June, Weaver last week was candid: "We're still in the learning process. The advertisers are still on the sidelines watching and waiting. We think the whole pattern will create a psychology among program buyers to put the heat on us to expand. So far this is not true." But he was undismayed. In creating NBC's Today some two years ago, Weaver fooled the experts and persuaded as many as 10 million Americans to watch their TV sets at 7 a.m. That launched his so-called "magazine...
...When exploded on the ground, an H-bomb throws into the air something like one billion tons of pulverized material. Floating for years in the upper atmosphere, the dust may cut the strength of sunlight. It may act as condensation nuclei, stimulating rainfall, and thereby changing the pattern of the winds. Such modifications of climate will not neces sarily be good...
Since the Masters are unable to smooth the inequities of the room rent pattern, the price schedule should be on a simple plane, with room rent, like tuition and board, charged at a single rate. The equalized rent would greatly simplify room distribution, for suite assignment would no longer meet financial barriers. Rooms could be assigned to sophomores by lot; then students who wished to move in their junior and senior years could choose from the rooms vacated graduating seniors...