Word: phenomena
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hammonds, when asked about The Ewe Lamb Rebellion, last week, said: "I have not thought about it." But L. Howell Lewis, astrologer of Oklahoma City, revealed that Governor Johnston had consulted him frequently during the impeachment proceedings. Astrophysical phenomena can cause no end of things "from short skirts to foaming-at-the-mouth legislatures," said Mr. Lewis. Perhaps he was thinking of two Oklahoma legislators who paused in debate, last fortnight, to threaten each other with paper cutters...
...report is a purely mathematical extension of the general theory of relativity to include gravitational and electromagnetic phenomena...
Died. Joseph Willard Legg, 41, famed expert in oscillography (wave phenomena), inventor of the osiso (portable oscillograph) and the polar high-speed camera. Westinghouse associate; of pneumonia; in Wilkinsburg, Pa. With his camera, which takes 3,000 pictures a second, Inventor Legg discovered that lightning flashes are a series of complex spirals...
...first place, we will define abnormal psychology. Abnormal psychology is a systematized collection of facts, concepts and hypotheses dealing with types of mental processes and behaviour that depart from normal and average forms. It includes a study of such common phenomena as dreams, reveries, slips of the tongue, morbid fears and anxieties, feelings of guilt and inferiority, obsessional ideas and compulsive acts, as well as the less common manifestations of hysteria and the halucinations and delusions of the insane...
...number of psychopathological concepts such as those of dissociation, repression, complex, rationalization, identification, projection and introjection have already found a place as convenient forms of description for otherwise indescribable phenomena. It is the concept of the unconscious however that has raised the most bitter antagonism. To the psychologists who have had a first hand acquaintance with the eccentricities of the mind it has become increasingly clear that a complete description of mental phenomena was impossible without the supposition of processes in every way similar to those subjectively apprehended as psychical occurring outside the field of awareness. This...