Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Senator Simeon Davison Fess, National Republican Chairman: "No uniform pattern ... a crazy-quilt...
Pecos Bill, who roamed the Southwest. Pattern of all cowboy hell-raisers, he was so tough he rode a catamount, used a rattlesnake as quirt...
...death in childbirth during the Caporetto retreat of 1917. There are numerous incidental characters who inhabit the play as they did the novel; but in the novel they were neat carvings on a walnut shell. In the play they are thinned and twisted into a helter-skelter, rag-rug pattern. Mr. Stallings is not to be censured for what he has done in all force and sincerity. But it takes more than force to expand a small frieze and keep it significant...
Since the evolutionary theory has influenced all branches of science, scientists have attempted to unite everything in a pattern of continuous development. As Charles Darwin and his contemporaries removed the definite boundaries between man and the rest of the animal kingdom, so scientists have united animal life and plant life. Upon the animal-plant dividing line, organisms were discovered which never have been definitely classified, showing relationship to the simplest animal and yet having the chlorophyll (the green pigment in plants which in the presence of sunlight is responsible for photosynthesis, the union of carbon dioxide and water to form...
...reducing the weight of aircraft engines, then all water-cooled. He enlisted in the Navy as a machinist's mate, was soon commissioned ensign and assigned by the Navy Department to aeronautical research. There he evolved the radial air-cooled motor which was to be the basic pattern for today's Whirlwinds...