Word: phenomena
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...These advances in science have greatly influenced the philosophic and religious thinking of the scientific man, for it is a great mistake to think the tendency of advancing science is toward materialism. Just the opposite. The repeated discoveries of new and unexpected types of phenomena in the physical world make us realize more than ever the limitations of our understanding and lead us to feel with the poet that 'As knowledge grows, from more to more will reverence in us dwell...
...bureaucracy. Certainly it will ease the hearts and slow the pens of many who thought the League was leagued with the Devil and the Methodist Church to controvert the rights of American citizens; but one is permitted to wonder what statistics and horrible examples will be added to the phenomena of contemporary life in a pamphlet war for the conversion and diversion of the public...
Heroine at the Metropolitan Opera last week was Rosa Ponselle. The revival of Norma had been announced and thereupon had followed much shaking of heads. Was not Norma 96 years old, relic of another age when song had been all-important and there were such phenomena as singers? Was not Norma the most exacting role ever set before a prima donna and had anyone ever done it justice since Lilli Lehmann last sang it at the Metropolitan...
After Mayor Thompson had left Washington, Chairman Reid's committee settled down to consider less spectacular phenomena, such as spillways, crevasses, levees and the main channel of the largest U. S. river. The planning of a national program began with requests for local relief. Representative Hull of Illinois put in a plea for stronger levees around Cairo, at the confluence of the Ohio and the Mississippi. Others from southern Illinois asked that the gooseneck narrows in the Mississippi at Cairo be widened instead...
...have always lauded the inventor. But both behind and in front of the inventor is the true research worker. The research worker first makes a fundamental discovery; then he proceeds to investigate it in all its aspects and attempts to explain it in its relations with other known phenomena. Next the inventor sees some way of turning this discovery to some practical account-and this is the step ordinarily called invention...