Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still unnamed disease causes symptoms virtually indistinguishable from tuberculosis. However, the germs are definitely not tubercle bacilli (Mycobacterium tuberculosis)-most are yellow or orange, whereas tubercle bacilli are colorless. And the unidentified germs show a different growth pattern...
...Roman Catholic Russian Rite in the U.S., will be ordained this week at Fordham University. The Russian Rite is a section of the Oriental Rite, one of the two great branches of Roman Catholic liturgy (the other is called the Latin Rite), which follows closely the liturgical pattern of the Eastern Orthodox Church...
...River water system (TIME, June 4, 1951) was a wonder to behold the day it was dedicated almost five years ago. Painted around the water's edge were giant-sized symbols of Mexico's people, their past oppressors and future hopes; beneath the water was an intricate pattern of teeming protoplasmic life. Rivera confidently predicted that his water-washed mural, Water, Origin of Life, painted with a mixture of plastic polystyrene in the fresco pigment, then varnished with transparent rubber, was good for 40 years at least...
...latest hike in discount rates to Federal Reserve member banks. Interest rates on short-term (up to 90 days) Treasury bills, which jumped from 2.17% at the end of March to 2.78% at the end of April, are settling down again, and long-term U.S. bonds show the same pattern...
Last night the police were still without any clues to the identity of this attacker, whose methods have formed a persistent pattern. He either lets the air out of all four tires, or pierces each of them with a razor-sharp, pointed instrument, like a filed ice-pick. As a final artistic gesture, the windshield wipers on most of the cars have been twisted back...