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...scooted along the dusty country roads like beetles. Behind them came cavalry columns, motorized troops, supply trains, artillery. The dust they raised made it plain that this was no usual spring raid. This time it was a full-scale offensive, and it seemed to fit snugly into the Tokyo pattern of global...
...Solid Pattern. In reality, the pattern of air attack, while growing in scope, had not yet fully shifted to the ferocious concentration on German military communications which would be the logical "attack bar rage" directly before invasion. Main Allied air objectives were still: 1) German air industry, 2) air power in being, 3) other industry, 4) Western Europe's railroad system...
...Orlemanski visit fitted into a pattern. So did Molotov's placatory statement on Rumania (TIME, April 10), Moscow's temperate attitude toward stubborn Finland and the recognition of Marshal Badoglio's tainted regime (see col. 2). Now a Springfield, Mass, priest, supporting a cause in which he himself believed, was apparently being used to underline Moscow's new technique of friendship...
...Atlantic Charter is nice, but it does not offer much competition to power politics. The little nations, the way things are going now, will have to fit themselves 1) into an overall pattern agreed on and supported by the Big Three; or 2) into the sphere of an individual Great Power among the Big Three...
...work a mighty heart." But when Emerson talked to him passionately of the work of reconstruction that lay ahead, young Holmes felt no crusader's impulse. "Merely, he desired to use his brain, drive it to its fullest .capacity ... to examine . . . the laws of social being, the pattern men followed in their lives. One morning he knocked on the door of his father's study, announced: 'I am going to the Law School.' The doctor was shocked. 'What's the use of that, Wendell?' he cried. 'A lawyer...