Word: patterning
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...appreciate the need for speed, that we do not quite understand that if we delay too long in winning the victory we will inherit nothing but a cold, starving embittered world. . . . Already there are signs that we're coming to accept slavery and suppression as part of the pattern of living in this year of disgrace. . . . There is the danger that we may become brutalized...
...cope, enable him to sum up within himself all the threads of his literary past, and his genius succeeded in spinning a web for the future, though the reader may be led astray along the way by the maze, and the spinner himself may become over absorbed in the pattern...
...interests of the nation's welfare. Recently they have demonstrated that they are ready to stand the chance of having only a toothbrush to take along, by voting to staff the new intensive Summer School without salary. With Harvard facing a complete metamorphosis in its entire education pattern because of the war's drain on student and teaching bodies and the imminent need of "speed up"--the Faculty is determined that no change will have to be made because of their financial claims on a war-time University budget...
...elected the shorter course. Surveying the nation, the Association of American Colleges found that 89% of the colleges had already plumped for year-round operation to carry out the accelerated program. Women's colleges made up most of the non-speeding 11%. By this week a new collegiate pattern had taken shape...
...bucketfuls of the oceans of waste lignin pouring out of U.S. paper mills every day. Big reason for the slowness of lignin utilization is that, in spite of more than 60 years of research by scores of chemists, nobody has yet precisely determined its structure-what atoms in what pattern form its molecule. But when the theory is cleared up, useful applications will follow thick & fast. Reason: chemists will know what they are working with and can abandon the essentially trial-&-error methods now forced upon them. Chief center of molecular lignin research is the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory...