Word: phenomena
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planets. They derived a maze of useful mechanical sub-laws. They explained the behavior of gases, and discovered the nature of heat. Newton's laws did not account for everything, but the physicists felt that this was due to their own ignorance. Eventually, they were sure, all phenomena could be explained in Newton's terms...
Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account...
...There was a high degree of cooperation between American universities," he continued. "Each had a special assignment. Harvard scientists studied soil mechanics, blood fractionation, treatment of burns, underwater sound, electrical phenomena in the ionosphere, and countless other fields of military importance...
Chief causes of the shortage, FORTUNE concludes, were two wartime phenomena: 1) the marriage boom; 2) migration of war workers from country to city...
...rocket's nose are instruments to record the composition of the upper atmosphere, its temperature, pressure and density. Later the Corporal may report on cosmic ray and meteoric conditions, and possibly provide new spectroscopic photographs of astral phenomena unimpeded by the optical distortion of the lower atmosphere. Heretofore the best information on the upper air has been supplied by radio-equipped weather balloons which level off some 20 miles below the Corporal's recorded ceiling...