Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...geographical distribution of foreign students closely follows the pattern established last year when 82 men from other countries were in Cambridge. China, with seven students, has climbed closer to its normal position at the head of the numerical list. Canada has nine in the College, and Guatamala and Mexico closely follow the leaders with seven apiece...
...would be presumptuous to compare in magnitude the problems facing Harvard with those confronting the nation. But their difference is of degree rather than of kind. At neither level is the process of reconversion complete. Neither has reached a stable postwar pattern, And both require the same type of far-sighted, constructive thinking to assure that the new version will be better than...
...short-grass country of southwest Oklahoma, the normal pattern of weather is a cruel one for farmers: too much rain at spring-planting time, drought in the growing season, rain again for the harvest. Year after year, cotton, maize and alfalfa crops have either been washed out by floods or ruinously parched...
Expensive Bargains. Sophie designs by telling one of her $125-a-week modelmakers exactly what she wants. To save money, a "mockup" of the dress is usually made first, in cheap muslin. When this is satisfactory, the muslin serves as a pattern. Compared to her costs, Sophie's selling prices of $255 to $1,500 are comparatively modest. Example: in her most expensive evening dress, the ermine trim alone cost $500, the chiffon another $76, overhead and workmanship, $294. With the markup of 42%, the selling price...
...pattern for most of Peacock's novels is a country house party where violently opinionated cranks, in an atmosphere of high spirits, alternate between chasing pretty girls and discussing everything, contradicting each other, and settling nothing-except that they make perfect butts for Peacock's gay, sometimes lethal, satire. Crotchet Castle and Nightmare Abbey, a goodnatured, witty caricature of Shelley as Scythrop dowry, the baffled lover, are probably the best of Peacock and least likely to bog the reader in temporary verbal swamps...