Word: phenomena
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chanted as work songs and at death wakes by the Ifugaos, a pagan, terrace-building people of the Philippine Islands"; "A comparative cyto-histological study of the meri-stems of buds and of tropical ferns, gym-nosperms and woody angiosperms"; "A comparative investigation of the neuropsychological determinants of the phenomena of dissociation"; "A spectroscopic study and analysis of gases of the volcano Mauna Loa." Says Miller (who was refused a Guggenheim): "A corn-fed hog enjoys a better life [in the U.S.] than a creative writer, painter or musician. To be a rabbit is better still...
Mugwump. Webster always wanted and meant to be a political cartoonist. He shifted to such relatively universal phenomena as a boy's fondness for a dog, or a wife's inability to be gracious when her husband wants a stag vacation, because they syndicated more easily, raised fewer quarrels (of a sort that involved furious letters-to-the-editor) and made more money than cartoons which took a strong stand on the tariff. As for taking a weak stand on the tariff, or on any other political issue, that was for Webster out of the question. Good political...
...answer [this question], the physicist must attempt to explain the two aspects of his science. There is, first, the creative intellectual activity which constantly pushes back the boundaries of our understanding of natural phenomena. Second, the industrial activity which applies the results of scientific knowledge . . . to satisfy material human needs and whimsies. The first is the science of physics proper, and the second is the side of physics which has been called the inheritance of technology. If the science of physics lags, the inheritance of technology is soon spent. In these war years, the inheritance of technology has been exploited...
Just before dawn one morning in September 1938, an aging Pasadena cultleader named Charles Long woke up with a start and saw a vision. Like most supernatural phenomena manifested in Southern California, it had English subtitles and Disney animation-a luminous hand scrawled "Daniel, Chapter 12" on a spectral blackboard floating near the foot of Long's bed. Before fading away, the hand wrote three dates, the last and most significant, 1945. To a man of Long's perception the meaning' was clear-in seven years the world was going to blow up like a bottle...
Teen-Age Girls and Where's the Meat (MARCH OF TiME-20th Century-Fox) deal briskly and informatively with two wartime phenomena which have become national preoccupations. The teenage girl, multiplied by some six million, has become a consumer with a mind very much her own: an object of special interest to magazines, department stores, dress designers, model agencies, musicians...