Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This made local citizenry unhappy and in November 1940 they voted in a new form of government, Plan E with proportional representation. Under this system a non-partisan City Manager assumes the duties of mayor. The revised pattern of city administration went into use in 1941 and at the end of the fiscal year the tax rate tumbled $2.40 in the face of a rising cost of living. Cambridge taxpayers beamed...
...basic pattern, the right halfback plunges into the center of the line, the fullback and the left half sweep wide to the left, and the T quarterback runs almost straight back for seven or eight yards...
Today's game will donbiless follow the pattern, although the Public Relations office at Hanover is taking pains to point out that Dartmouth's injuries have practically rendered them incapable of fielding any team...
...draw. But, the world being in the delicately balanced state that it is, fine distinctions can be most important. Nothing, except appeasement, is more likely to cause a war than aimless provocation. God knows, we haven't been guilty of appeasement this time. But there is a pattern of unthinking opposition in our foreign policy which is exceedingly dangerous...
...Friday, when the Series moved to Ebbets Field, the fans were ready for Brooklyn's usual wide-open, slambang style of play. Instead, for eight innings, the game jogged right along in the pattern : a pitching exhibition between Brooklyn's usually erratic Ralph Branca, who settled down to retire 14 batters in a row and New York's ace-in-the-sleeve Relief Pitcher Joe Page, who replaced Tommy Byrne in the fourth inning...