Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...pattern of bombings in Germany proper since June (extended last month to include Italy's key motor, magneto and aircraft plants at Milan and Turin, and last week to Sardinia) spreads from the Lake of Constance on the Swiss border to Kiel on the Baltic, and now as far east as Berlin (see map). Relentless, consistent, it was stepped up by last week to at least 800 planes per night, neutral observers believed, carrying a nightly total of perhaps 2,500 tons of destruction from 16 British bases. Its purpose was the slow, sure crippling of German industry...
...great university located in a metropolitan area are not immune. But there's little danger of that, when talk of war--in classrooms, in meetings, in newspapers, on the air, and almost daily in this column--will do its best to make you scorn the humdrum and familiar pattern or university life, a life which can be both dramatic and exciting...
With representatives from Iceland and Hong Kong, the class will still be mainly composed of Bay Staters and New Yorkers following the pattern of other classes in the last decade. Several are listed as having prepared in French lycees, although the refugee group is not as noticeable as last year when families had not yet become so completely absorbed...
Once having established himself on the St. Lawrence, an invader might pattern his advance by land on the thrust of gouty General Burgoyne down the Hudson in the Revolution. Mercilessly harried on his flanks as he moved south, luxury-loving Briton Burgoyne finally dug in near Saratoga, put his women in a safe place and tried to knock Gates's Army out of his way. Soundly defeated in one of the world's decisive battles (largely through the tactical resource of Gates's brilliant subordinate, Benedict Arnold) he had to hand over his sword. Thus ended...
...young woman who, when she sneezed, nearly always sneezed twice in rapid succession. After one sneeze she waited for the second and if it did not come felt "a distressing sense of incompleteness." Checking the sneeze behavior of the woman's mother, he ran into another double-sneeze pattern. When a granddaughter was born, Dr. Erickson kept careful record of her sneezing, found three generations of double sneezers. In his report in the current Journal of Genetic Psychology, he concluded: "Variations in the [sneeze] pattern may be inherited...