Word: phenomena
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minor sequel to the article occurred when the Boston American sent its star photographer, Jack Dixon, to the Yard to take pictures of the new phenomena. Dixon snared two students and had them pose on the steps of University Hall, wearing large black handlebars. "Thanks a lot," he said when he had finished, "Say, what's your name...
Though he thus flinches from the hurly-burly of modern life, Philosopher Joad is no pantywaist philosopher. Three years ago, when he witnessed the first firewalk performed in England (TIME, Sept. 30, 1935); newshawks asked him, as a well-known student of psychic phenomena, what he thought of the feat. Scholar Joad, taking a leaf from the book of George Bernard Shaw, who charges $1 a word for answering questions, said he could make no observations unless he was paid five guineas...
...cases accompanied by unusually high humidity readings. (In Washington, 92°, a woman telephoned the Weather Bureau, asked "Where will I have to go to cool off? New Hampshire?" "Sorry," replied the Weather Bureau, "it's 90 in New Hampshire.") The Act of God which produced these extraordinary phenomena was the misbehavior, for no apparent reason, of high and low pressure areas. These areas usually proceed across the U. S., from west to east, in a stately procession so that the weather changes every two or three days, cool winds from the moving highs, which are generally accompanied...
Author of a novel called Son of Han, Sociopsychologist La Piere writes with more color and smoothness than most of his colleagues, draws much of his material from newspapers and magazines. Hence, he scrutinizes a number of phenomena which are rarely mentioned in scientific books-Fred Astaire and Jessie Matthews, the chain-letter craze, the Big Apple, Fashion Stylist Adrian of Hollywood, Variety. He turns a coldly skeptical and sardonic eye on the standard apologies for capitalism, also on the ideologies of democracy ("the safest votes, as every practical politician knows, are those which have been 'bought...
...late Thomas Welton Stanford, brother of Leland Stanford, was a firm believer in "psychic phenomena," endowed a chair of psychic research at California's Stanford University. First occupant was a distinguished psychologist, the late John Edgar Coover. Second and present occupant is a black-haired, tenacious young man named John Kennedy. Both Coover and Kennedy have used the research funds provided by Thomas Welton Stanford to try to expose the phenomena in which the donor believed...