Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...department store in Phoenix, Ariz. was swamped with orders for Antsy Pants -men's underwear shorts decorated in a bright print pattern of huge red ants. Said the store's advertisement: "He'll rant and dance with big red ants...
...matter how Indierons the plot, or absurd the characters, it is impossible to dislike a DeMille motion picture. DeMille has captured the romantic spirit necessary to an adventure film, combined it with constant and furious action, and with them has woven a pattern of continuous delight that is never dull for movie audiences over the past twenty-five years...
Concentration and distribution rules are intended to provide the basic framework that will guide a man towards a well-rounded education. The regulations will set the pattern of studies, but each individual must plan both the type and sequence of courses that comprise his education. This system places the burden of proof with the student. It requires that he choose his courses wisely and be carefully tutored in the ultimate objectives of concentration and distribution. The undergraduate who is carefully advised and sets up a precise balance between general and specialized courses can often realize the full value...
...Chicago, had devised the system on a bet with Medical Student Roy Walford. They took a term off from the university to try it out. It was a "progressive parlay" based on mathematical probability, some intricate slide-rule calculations, and two assumptions: that any roulette wheel follows a pattern of its own, and that good or bad luck runs in streams. The key to the Hibbs-Walford approach: increase bets in streams of good luck, never increase or reduce them in streams of bad luck...
...four days the partners studied a Palace Club roulette wheel, jotting down the winning numbers and recording the machine's pattern.* On the fifth day Hibbs & Walford selected No. 21 and made their first bet-a cautious 25?. As their winnings mounted, the crowd of tourists, gamblers, divorce-seekers and hangers-on increased. So did the Hibbs-Walford bets, until $11 was riding on each spin. Their longest losing streak: 266 spins. Their luckiest run: four wins out of five spins. Hibbs & Walford spelled each other in eight-hour shifts. After 40 hours, when Hibbs & Walford had parlayed their...