Word: phenomena
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consider the U. S. in October, 1939, he might have foreseen the end of prohibition. But nothing in the world of 1929 or in its habits of thought would have prepared him for the surprises of 1939; for the emergence of women in independent political roles, for such phenomena as that of Pundit Dorothy Thompson, gravely lecturing businessmen who would have regarded her as a hopeless Red before the crash had taken its toll of their certainties. But deeply familiar would have been a Congress debating as it did last week under the same old rules and a top-hatted...
Thus the Yorkshire Post recently summed up one of the most curious phenomena of modern British journalism. A revival of the classic art of pamphleteering, London's newsletters are mimeographed or cheaply printed, distributed by mail to subscribers at home and abroad. Beginning about six years ago, newsletters have grown in circulation and influence until as of last week they were reaching hundreds of thousands of selected readers and had created an international incident...
...rostrum for three days of earnest punning at Chicago's Stevens Hotel was a national Conference on Interstate Trade Barriers. At the Council's instance, seven Governors and the representatives of 37 States dabbled in Constitutional history, gazed gravely at charts depicting some of the most astonishing phenomena of current life in the U. S. Among facts related, deplored...
...ignoring the ground swell but making much of the wave-crests--schools, movements, isms, styles, which succeed one another much like the ducks in a shooting-gallery. To evolve a philosophy of art history which would give meaning to change and value to accomplishment, often requires that we study phenomena which are not, in the orthodox, artistic at all. How much simpler to build stone walls that make teaching easier though they make learning more difficult. Thus one avoids the charge of being an academic jack-of-all-trades, and remains the specialist behaving as though his field of knowledge...
After listening for three days and deliberating 45 minutes, the jury announced that Robert Wadlow had lost his suit. Overjoyed were Dr. Humberd and his colleagues all over the U. S., for the decision reaffirmed their privilege of freely reporting medical phenomena for the benefit of science...