Word: phenomena
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Bridgman, the author of "The Logic of Modern Physics," was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1946 for his research in high pressure phenomena. Professor Stouffer has done extensive work in the methods of quantitative sociology for the government and the Army...
People who regard science with suspicion have always celebrated such familiar, explainable events as "mysteries" or "miracles." Charles Fort, who died in 1932, made a career of it. For 26 years Fort puttered in the British Museum and the New York Public Library, collecting phenomena which "science cannot explain" (he had a special fondness for unusual objects falling from the sky). He insisted that the earth was surrounded by a gelatinous shell, in which the stars were holes. Rains of fish, frogs and "blood" (water containing reddish dust particles) were brought down to earth from the shell by "teleportation...
Author Marks is a bit more skeptical of hypnotism's pure power for good. He reports some hypnotic cures, but links them with faith healing. He also thinks that phenomena like the appeal of such different people as Hitler and Sinatra can be explained by mass hypnotism...
Gollancz concentrates on two major social phenomena which he feels most markedly violate his creed of Christian love: the practices of the Stalin dictatorship and the Allied occupation policy in Germany. In great detail he explores the "specialized idealism" of Stalin's followers, that double-bookkeeping morality which permits them to engage in the most immoral activity precisely because they are sincerely convinced that they work in behalf of a liberating cause. "A communist spy is particularly dangerous ... not because he's a scoundrel but because...
...technical wizards lies the key to the relationship between the independently-endowed Institute and Princeton proper. Hore the interplay of staff is most evident. Hungarian-born John von Neumann secured the collaboration of Princeton's economist Oskar ("Business Cycles") Morganstern in his comprehensive mathematician's-eye view of economic phenomena. Von Neumann currently supervises construction of the Princeton calculator, and electronic digital affair differing from Harvard's in the same fashion as the University of Pennsylvania's "Eniac," which chooses a course of action rather than "thinks...