Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...popular conception of camouflage dating from World War I, when multicolored blotches were used to break up outlines of ships, tanks, buildings, is old stuff. Chief reason: parti-colored camouflage alone gives little concealment from airplane observers, whose sharp eyes are likely to pick up shadows, breaks in the pattern of the landscape. Today the idea is to use plain, dull colors, eradicate shadows, break up telltale outlines. England has had considerable success in disguising airplane factories and flying fields as farms by distorting shadows, building dummy roads. Germany disguised many a new flying field by planting it in crops...
...arming to defend a particular form of representative government. We may at some later time wish to modify and simplify our highly complex governmental pattern. But most of us would believe we were arming to defend certain principles embodied in our constitutional form of government...
Last week R. A. F. bombers kept filling out the pattern, stepping up their intensity. They roared down the coastline smashing at docks & shipping from Norway to the Spanish border, pounding the big guns at Cap Gris Nez, blasting barges at Calais. As the week advanced, they gave the French ports their worst battering of the war. Diving through a howling southwester, a squadron of Blenheim bombers poured their loads into Boulogne, starting fires at the rate of one a minute. At Brest, new Fairey Albacore planes of the Fleet Air Arm plunged through a heavy anti-aircraft barrage...
...Decline of the West is a philosophy of history. Spengler boots out the Ancient-Medieval-Modern pattern of schoolbooks, the "Progress" pattern of reformers and optimists, the cause-&-effect patterns of rationalists. He sees each culture-Classical, Chinese, Arabian, etc.-as an organic entity which is born, flourishes, wanes, dies, like plants and animals. As organisms, cultures have a uniform morphology, except where accident intrudes (as in the ruin of Aztec culture by a band of adventurers). Lifetime of a culture is about 1,500 years. Western culture of 1940 is at about the same stage of its life cycle...
...Jayvees set the pattern for the Varsity game Saturday when the battled to a 6 to 6 draw with the Army junior varsity squad on the soldiers Field practice gridiron...