Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reactor was beautifully simple. It was called a "pile," and it was literally that-a 500-ton pile of carefully machined bricks made of pure graphite. Imbedded in some of the bricks, in a precisely calculated pattern, were little cubes of uranium or uranium oxide. Long control rods, plated with the metallic element cadmium, were so set up that they could be withdrawn from, or inserted into, deep holes in the graphite...
...seat above him, also eating a sandwich. Both men were talking with their mouths full. It was the day that Roosevelt told Eisenhower that he would be the supreme commander of the Allied invasion of Normandy. Dozens of rare moments like those were assembled in a dramatic pattern and cemented with a well-written narrative...
...hover indecisively between existence and nonexistence. His sculptured heads achieve somewhat the same feeling by looking as if they had been buried for a while and had then decided to rejoin the world. Jones, who is an associate professor of art at U.C.L.A., seems to see reality as a pattern of becomings and perishings but he emphasizes the becomings. As he views his figures, they are perpetually emerging from the ghostly spaces behind...
...first race set the pattern for the rest of the slaughter. A Crimson 200-yard medley relay team of Wurster, Hammond, French, and Buster left the Huntington quartet in its wake to win in 2:53.3. Then John Quinn ran away with the 200-yd. freestyle in 1:58.3, and John Rich, in his first year of competitive swimming, had little trouble taking the 50-yd. free...
This year's "official" All-Ivy team follows the pattern. The fact that it was determined by coaches, rather than sportswriters and publicitymen, leads one to believe the whole ritual is a study in futility. The coaches should be in a better position than anyone to pick a "dream" team, but the All-Ivy list announced this week seems to indicate that even they cannot do a rational...