Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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University of Texas' Homer Price Rainey: "We cannot escape the fact that we belong to the culture pattern of Western Europe which is represented by England and France. Hence if these countries should face defeat, we would find it difficult to remain out of the struggle. . . . We may ... be on the verge of tragic days for our young people...
...modern war there are four main fronts-military, diplomatic, economic, propagandist. To get a line on the patter and pattern of propaganda from its talkiest medium, CBS has had a staff of reporter-linguists listening day & night to Europe's radio since the first days of World War II. Main idea has been to enable CBS's home commentators to sort news from propaganda for radio listeners. But the by-product has been an increasing sheaf of notes, observations, comparisons, verbatim broadcasts which, by themselves, constitute a fairly complete documentation of the technique of war propaganda, as practiced...
...individual caught between two eras, risking a split personality as he is buffered back and forth between the old and the new, not knowing where to turn. We have in mind a man we saw at Sunday dinner. Dressed in a new tweed jacket, of whalebone pattern, and wearing the black knit tie, he pulled from his pocket a large and faded red bandana, and just a little self-consciously wiped his nose. -The Daily Dartmouth...
...Harvard changes them. But not to the same pattern, not according to the same specifications. They go out into the world as different as they came in, and they contrive to make Harvard Man mean something different to every other person...
...drop of blood is taken from the finger tip of a cancer suspect. The blood is dissolved in a small amount of lukewarm sterile water, mixed with copper chloride and spread on a glass microscope slide to crystallize. Healthy blood forms a green crystal pattern which, under a microscope, looks like a delicate, fan-shaped palm leaf. But in cancerous blood some unknown chemical forms a pattern of scattered, double-wing bow ties. In 1,000 trials on known cancer victims, said Drs. Pfeiffer and Miley, the copper test was 80% accurate...