Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting was expected to last two days. Actually, it was over in six hours. "It was found," wrote one Washington newsman, reporting a phenomenon rare in international councils today, "that areas of disagreement on practical steps to be taken were considerably fewer than had been expected." The happy meeting consisted of the Atlantic Treaty nations' defense ministers or their representatives, collectively known as the Defense Committee. They had come to Washington to set up and set in motion the defense apparatus outlined by their colleagues, the foreign ministers, last month (TIME, Sept...
...salary of ?850 yearly), the man who didn't know his way in London had, by war's end, thought, talked and worked his way up to being Permanent Secretary of the combined Ministries of Supply and Aircraft Production (at ?3,500 a year). To explain the phenomenon, some of Franks's friends fumble with such fuzzy words as "elusive" and "intuitive" to describe his gifts, but one who has known him for years put it very simply last week: "Franks is essentially a very simple man on whose shoulders a big, beautiful piece of mental machinery...
...past 2½ years, Southern California has witnessed the growth of a phenomenon as typical as hot dog stands shaped like hot dogs, the self-service filling station. Since thrifty motorists can save 5? a gallon by filling their own tanks, the "serve yourself" stations are spreading all over the Pacific Coast, sell 20 million gallons a month. Major oil companies squirm at the inroads they are making in the sales of regular stations owned or leased out by the majors...
...studies for his first two years almost equally among the three general fields, humanities, social sciences, and physical sciences. Donald B. Tresidder was president from the early thirties until his sudden death two years ago. His extremely friendly relationship with the students is greatly responsible for that current phenomenon, Stanford spirit...
...Connie Mack) McGillicudy of the Philadelphia Athletics just kept rolling along. There was no particular Mack anniversary last week (next season will be his 50th as manager of the A's), but the mayor and citizenry of New York City decided to give "a day" to contemplate the phenomenon. There was plenty to contemplate...