Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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True to prediction, Princeton came out pumped--"they wanted to beat us bad," Scalise said--with an intensity that wasn't limited to just the playing field. Coach Bob Malekoff established an early pattern of loudly berating the officials, and at one point in the half, a Tiger partisan contributed, "We can't get beat by Harvard; they're our worst people to lose...
Hubel and Wiesel have provided a road map of a small portion of that world. By measuring electrical impulses given off by the neurons of the visual cortex, the researchers discovered that the cells in the cortex are arranged in a regular pattern in columns organized into equally regular "hypercolumns." Each cell within each column, they discovered, has a specific responsibility to perceive and analyze incoming images according to contrast, linear patterns and movement on the retina. Within the columns, the analysis also occurs in a formal sequence. Eventually all this information is relayed to the higher centers...
Trees, planters and decorative street-lighting will be used to channel automobile movement. The entrance to Appleton will be narrowed so tightly that only one car will be able to enter at a time. Cars will be parked in clusters in a hopscotch pattern to impede the flow of autos-indeed, to slow them down to 5 to 10 m.p.h. When the overhaul is completed, cars, cyclists and pedestrians all will share wall-to-wall rights to the street, with pedestrians first among equals...
They knew that if they looked at a wide enough stretch of sky, the haphazard distribution of heavenly bodies would even out into a vast and more or less regular pattern. "Our idea of a small distance is 1 million light-years," explains Astronomer Paul Schechter of Kitt Peak. "At that distance it looks like a very lumpy universe. But as you step back, the universe begins to look very smooth...
...sighs. "Sometimes when it got slow," she says, "I would quiz myself on how many numbers I knew by heart. The last time I counted, it was 450." She gestures to the push-buttons on her console. "I know a lot of them just by the pattern of the numbers. Like I'll know a number is a box in the top corner--something like that." She stops and thinks for a moment, and then breaks out laughing. "I guess I'd be totally shot on a dial phone...