Word: phenomena
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Visiting the sets, Hedda is usually a better show than what is going on in front of the camera. She is a great crowd-pleaser. Her radio warm-up is one of the phenomena of the business. Her personality, italicized by her manic hats, stimulates the autograph hounds. They fawn on her at the studio gates. "Oh, g'wan with you," says Hedda brusquely. "I'm not a celebrity...
Said Professor Blackett modestly: "It is suggested tentatively that . . . the above equation represents some new and fundamental property of rotating matter. Perhaps this relation will provide the long-sought connection between electromagnetic and gravitational phenomena...
...stiff-necked and paid no attention to ordinary people," they said. "Now they come to us and ask us as a favor to vote for them." Commented a U.S. official: "Isn't that the beginning? How else does an awareness of self-government occur, if not in the phenomena of the candidate coming, hat in hand, to ask for votes? People, even Japs and Germans, like the idea of picking their own dogcatcher...
...full general examination on the phenomena and facts of life, comprehensive and fairly thorough, is given all concentrators in the senior year, and a thesis is one of the requirements for honors, although special dispensations have been made during the war years...
...arrangement which is rapidly becoming unique in times of increasing stress on research has leading professors, many of them ranking men in their fields, teaching undergraduates the fundamentals of chemical phenomena...