Word: patterning
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...unofficial war between Bolivia and Paraguay is now entering its second month. So far it has followed the customary pattern. Outwardly it is being fought by both sides for glory and for Fatherland. Shorn of its patriotic tinsel it appears as a simple case of imperialistic rivalry, this time with British and American tin interests using the two countries as cats-paws. Not often does one find so clear an example of bitter economic struggle and shoddy nationalism to veil...
...this is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods have failed through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure and abdicated. Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted. True, they have tried, but their efforts have been cast in the pattern of an outworn tradition. Faced by failure of credit, they have proposed only the lending of more money...
...Dorothy Randolph Fell Mills (wife of U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Mills); mysteriously, of a knife wound in his chest, while on vacation from his Paris bank with his third wife Martha Ederton Fell, onetime Follies girl; in their hotel room in Solo, Java. Following the fiction pattern of Novelist Somerset Maugham, a guest broke in the Fells' room when he heard Mrs. Fell's screams, found Fell on the floor gasping, "I did it myself. It's my fault." Mrs. Fell testified her back was turned when she heard him rise from the table, stagger...
...eighth was even; Fields came on again in the ninth and had a chance to keep his title by a strong finish. There was one exchange in which both men stood still in the centre of the ring, trading punches with mathematical fairness; the round ended in the pattern of the fight, Fields charging in, Corbett punching. When the bell rang, Referee Kennedy took the title to Corbett's corner...
...which it is equipped with two kidneys, extra lung space and other excessive organs which leave a great margin of safety. Dr. Cannon offers a model of tested and reliable performance which, he states, the world may well copy in stabilizing its economic and social pattern...