Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Researcher Yi Ying Sung, former associate professor at Peking University, supplied the show's writers with material on Japan's past & present and with the facts about the disintegration in Asia of the ancient family pattern. (On this theme one of television's leading dramatists, Joseph Liss, has written a play for the TIME program...
...instrument which shines a white light through a substance, usually in solution, and measures the light waves absorbed by it. By studying the "absorption pattern," chemists can detect the presence or absence of certain compounds, including many vitamins...
...pattern of his operation began to unfold. A cop dressed as a workman bumped into Rubino one day in a corridor near a dynamo room. "What are you doing here?" the peddler demanded. The 'cop mumbled: "I'm looking for the mess hall." Rubino growled: "Well, this isn't it, so get the hell out of here." The cop left but returned to spy later. Rubino met from three to seven customers a day, walked them around the hospital grounds to the powerhouse and left the buyer holding the dog's leash, while he scuttled inside...
...birthday. The highlight of her coming-of-age party: the cutting of the royal cake, a 30-pound, twelve-sided baker's delight, each side decorated with a sign of the zodiac, the main panel showing Leo, the Princess' own sign, and the top iced with the pattern of her personal standard and planted with 21 silver candles, silver roses and Scotch thistles. Among the guests: Billy Wallace, Lord Ogilvy and the Earl of Dalkeith-her three favorite suitors...
...most cases the illness recurs every seven days, or in multiples of seven. Some patients' cycles get longer or shorter over the years, and some never fit the weekly pattern...