Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...record with the 6-inch hole," as it was first laughingly referred to), it was, to a radio engineer, a greatly enlarged artist's representation of the face of one type of RCA color television picture tube. This tube has red, blue and green dots in a mosaic pattern similar to Artist Chaliapin...
...years, Professor Soule's life proceeded in perfect pattern. But under the pattern, all was not well with Professor Soule. Early this summer, the university began to get anonymous phone calls, charging Dr. Soule with stealing. Investigation proved the charges true. As head of the bacteriology department, Dr. Soule had access to special funds to pay the expenses of visiting educators. He had been getting money for visitors who had never come...
This state of mind produces no easily definable political pattern. It is rather meaningless to talk of "democracy" in western Germany: the Germans at this point are neither particularly "prodemocratic" nor "anti-democratic...
...problems which for two decades have harassed the city. Behind the present good wages of the auto industry lies a history of some of the worst violence in U.S. labor. Today, Detroit's labor is comparatively peaceful, casually shifting jobs with the shifts in Detroit's production pattern, getting over the slumps with the help of unemployment-compensation checks...
...Electrons," he points out, "can supply the brains for the control of machinery, respond to light, color, a wisp of smoke-the faintest touch or the feeblest sound. Today, these electrons can follow a chart, a blueprint or a pattern more accurately than the human eye. Some day, they may even respond to smell and taste. Who would dare predict the future? He is a rash man who would limit an art as limitless as space itself...