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...fate of the Third Reich of Germany may set the pattern for the ultimate course of the Second Russian Empire...
...Great Weakness. Thus in the formative years of modern France a pattern was set that persisted into the relatively calm decades; even when they had time, Frenchmen did not concentrate on political institutions. They could, and did, think seriously on the lofty level of eternal verities in the relation of man and society, tapping the springs of pre-Revolutionary French thought, both conservative and radical. Or they could, and usually did, conduct their politics in terms of the expediency of the moment, carelessly altering and confusing their political institutions to conform to fitful winds. Modern France always takes itself seriously...
Meteorologists have never been able to pin down a regular pattern in the weather, beyond the daily and annual cycles. But in late 1949, Rainmaker Irving Langmuir started releasing silver iodide particles in the skies over New Mexico on the same day each week. His idea was to see if this "weekliness" showed up in weather statistics gathered all over the country. According to a report in last week's Chemical and Engineering News, Langmuir is sure that...
Wherever the newsmen went, they found a depressingly recurrent pattern of "free rides" for good basketball and football players who were given "large cash payments, clothing and automobiles as inducements to enroll." The colleges, Grutzner found, do not wait around for athletes to come knocking at the door. High-pressure recruiting is part & parcel of the system of big-money college athletics...
...committee was set up last week by the Council to formulate all arguments on the rules. Most of the committee's arguments follow the same pattern that the Council advised before Watson issued his eight-page rule book. These rulings completely ignored the Council's suggestions for easing restrictions on undergraduate organizations...