Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...valley has long filled men with dreams of wealth, but actually the valley is a great wasteland. From the air the Amazon looks at one minute like a wide brown river (it varies from one to seven miles in width). In the next minute, it has lost all pattern in a thousand islands of every conceivable size...
Thus the New York Times on the Republican Convention of 1932. The Democratic Convention of 1948 was cut on the same pattern...
Following the tactics of Communists and of Hollywood's "unfriendly ten," the left-wing leaders refused to answer. In the now familiar pattern, they tried to 'turn the witness chair into a soapbox, hurled accusations at the Congressmen, and got themselves thrown...
...effects of this strategy would be widespread. FTC says that there are 191,907 companies which use basing points. As industry's bellwether, Big Steel had set a pattern which thousands would follow. As a result, U.S. consumers might soon have to pay more for a whole lot of things -for furniture, oil, machinery, paper and hundreds of other items...
Summer Holiday (MGM) is a musical version of Ah, Wilderness!, Eugene O'Neill's 15-year-old comedy of smalltown life in the Teddy Roosevelt era. In some respects, it is still fresh, for Director Rouben Mamoulian has attempted to follow on film the pattern he used on the stage with Oklahoma! Instead of unfolding in rigidly separated plot scenes and musical numbers, Summer Holiday was planned as a flowing synthesis of songs and dialogue...