Word: phenomena
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Natural phenomena and man-made disturbances, in the form of rain and low flying airplanes, are not the perfect adjuncts to a dramatic performance. In spite of these hindrances, however, the Group 20 players' Androcles and the Lion came off smoothly and with great finesse...
Texas-born Professor Mills uncovers some pretty startling social phenomena. The reader will hear that the rich have more money than other people and so can afford better schools, longer vacations and more luxury all around. Old money, what the sociologist in John Marquand's Point of No Return called "mellow wampum," isn't good because it's too snobbish and irresponsible. New money isn't good because it has to be acquired by means that would horrify a hard-working sociologist. Mills does not say how much money a man may accumulate and still stay...
...specialists in the "neurosis" and the "cure" announced the formation of a combined National Academy of Religion and Mental Health. Its aims: to promote the establishment of psychiatry departments in theological seminaries and to sponsor research in the area where religion and psychiatry seem to overlap, e.g., "What religious phenomena are pathological...
...similarly, there are tangible phenomena which may better explain the character of the House than trite, ineffable somethings like "congenial community...
...machine will create particles of a higher energy than was ever before possible," Harvey Brooks, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, explained. This will enable scientists to observe high-energy phenomena, valuable in determining the nature of the atom, he added...