Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...City will not be able to bring its traffic pattern around the Cambridge Common back to normal until June at the earliest...
Said Goheen last month at a press conference: "If this movement [at the Wilson Society] and the move to the new club were to snowball it would certainly put pressure on some of the clubs ... [The Trustees committee] envisages a changing pattern of dining arrangements and social life for undergraduates at Princeton, neither eliminating clubs as such, nor perpetuating their present overwhelming dominance...
...likely, says University of Arizona Geochronologist* Paul Martin. Writing in the current issue of Natural History, he suggests it was "overkill," not "overchill," that caused the disappearance of large numbers of species. In North America, as well as on other continents, he says, "the pattern and timing of large-scale extinction corresponds to only one event-the arrival of prehistoric hunters...
...Geochronologist Martin, the pattern is clear. The demise of these animals closely follows the migration of man, the hunter. In Africa, for example, the disappearance of many species of big game seems to coincide with the first record of fire in archaeological sites. Fire, Martin speculates, was used by the early African hunters to encircle entire herds of animals. With this technique, they destroyed more animals than they needed for food and clothing-a primitive version of overkill. In North America, the musk ox suddenly died out in a large swath across what is now Canada and the U.S. between...
Katayama said that the heights of the holding vehicle for the chairs were kept low so as not to interfere with the space of the roof area and over-power the chairs. The pattern of lines incised into the cement floor is taken into account and even the accordion walls holding windows and louvres at the back of the room are used to display furniture. All is appropriate and sufficient, no more. Katayama takes van der Rohe's maxim "less is more" as his own--his aim is to parry and eliminate, always saying with the barest essentials more than...