Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Willey hopes to begin excavating in 1960. The diggings may resolve at least the questions of the pattern of Maya cities and the reason for the Mayas' sudden disappearance from the area...
...addition, they met with small groups of House members at dinners and gave talks in the Junior Common Room. Although the program for Behrman's visit has not been definitely worked out, it is assumed that it will follow last year's pattern...
...decisive factor on these drives was, generally speaking, the superior speed of the Soviet wings. In their playing pattern, one of the wings would speed down ice with the puck, drawing the Crimson players with him into a corner. Then the pass would go out to one of the points for a long shot on Pratt, and after the rebound, either from Pratt of off the boards, the Russians would play in front of the cage for the decisive shot, passing out to the point if the puck floated into a corner again...
...seasonal clearances with inventories lower and spirits higher than in years. The brightest post-Christmas promotion was put on by Dallas' A. Harris & Co. For one day, it announced it would take back any "Christmas gift which doesn't fit, which is the wrong size or pattern or color, which is simply not wanted, or which duplicates another Christmas gift." For the first time ever, the offer was not restricted to Harris' own merchandise. Except for furs, real jewelry and merchandise not carried in its own store, Harris said it would exchange goods from its "competitors, other...
Crisis of Faith. Snow's novel follows the familiar pattern of a pietistic tract-vocation, doubts, doubts resolved, ordination, temptation, temptation defeated, final serenity of soul. Its hero and narrator is Arthur Miles, only son of a poor, Nonconformist family, who finds his vocation for science by reading H. G. Wells and looking at the evening star through a toy telescope. By arduously won scholarships, he finds himself at King's College, London, peering at crystals and within reach of the Royal Society ("my Mecca and my Westminster and my Rome"). A vision of sanctity comes to Miles...