Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the shy volcano stopped growing late in 1945, it reached a height of about 1,000 feet. Said Professor Tanakadate, of the rare phenomenon that had been observed with such care: "It may be a source of fear and destruction to the ordinary inhabitants of the area, but to scientists it is a source of wonder and delight. Actually, we scientists know so little...
This would seem a peculiar way for a coach to be spending his days with the Yale regatta a scant three weeks away. It is a temporary phenomenon. By tomorrow the Newell boathouse will be entirely abandoned, and all hands will be back at their oars operating out of Red Top, plying up and down the Thames to the extent of 20 miles...
...year-old son of Kentucky's attorney general, and with him his 34-year-old law partner. The partner was none other than brash, hulking Edward F. Prichard Jr., the onetime New Deal wonder boy whose brass, brains & belly (he weighed 300 lbs.) made him a campus phenomenon at both Princeton and Harvard Law School, who hustled off to Washington at the age of 24 to help Franklin Roosevelt run the country. Four years ago Prichard had come back to Kentucky in search of a political career...
...clock nears 8 along the Eastern Seaboard on Tuesday night, a strange new phenomenon takes place in U.S. urban life. Business falls off in many a nightclub, theater-ticket sales are light, neighborhood movie audiences thin. Some late-hour shopkeepers post signs and close up for the night. In Manhattan, diners at Lindy's gulp their after-dinner coffee and call for their checks as they did in the days of the Roosevelt fireside chats. On big-city bar rails along the coast and in the Midwest, there is hardly room for another foot. For the next hour, wherever...
Though the twins seem old, cold and aloof, one of them recently blew its top. Last Dec. 7, says Luyten, "the fainter of the two stars was seen to flare up suddenly to twelve times its normal brilliance and to subside again in less than 20 min utes, a phenomenon which, so far, is unique among stars . . . The atomic explosion . . . amounted to the equivalent of a billion atomic bombs of the Hiroshima type...