Word: pattern
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...week when the British announced their revolutionary new defense posture, Australia decided to pattern its fighting equipment, in size and design, after the U.S. instead of Britain. "In the event of global war," said Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies, "it would be difficult for the U.K. to maintain a supply line to Southeast Asia, though the U.S. undoubtedly could do so. Although Australia is wholeheartedly a British nation, this policy is not heresy-it merely recognizes the facts...
Delivering the closing address of a two-day conference on urban design, Gropius noted that although scientific progress has brought the nation abundant physical and materialistic well-being, there has as yet been little effort towards producing planned communities with "an attractive and sociable pattern...
Although the lectures will follow the Monday-Friday pattern set this week, Oppenheimer, who is director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, will not lecture next week. His next talk will, be on Monday, April...
...Gulf of California coast, not enough rain has fallen in the past six years to settle the dust. Yet last week 123,550 acres of the valley's virgin soil lay plowed and planted for the first time in history. Crisscrossing the land was a symmetrical pattern of brand-new concrete canals and irrigation ditches filled with fresh water. Higher up, in the foothills of the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains that parallel the coast, lay the source of the life-giving moisture: the new, stone-faced $16 million Miguel Hidalgo Dam, finished last year...
...trial lawyer since Clarence Darrow," is a sort of jukebox genius who will sing almost any tune for almost anybody who provides the coin. When a young hellionaire (Philip Reed) murders his wife's boy friend. Lawyer Chandler finagles an acquittal. For the next hour or so the pattern of the plot looks like something perpetrated by a drunken silkworm. Is the sheriff (Jack Carson) the crook? Is the hero the villain? Is the lawyer the defendant? Does anybody care? Actor Chandler seems to care deeply, because he tries so hard, but his performance never really hits the target...