Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though the phenomenon of the Shahkta Trial is now in its second month, proceedings are still in the most preliminary stage. No evidence has been heard concerning the Prosecution's astounding charge that the sabotage ring was partially financed by one of the greatest public utility corporations in the world, the A. E. G. (Allgemeine Elektrizitats-Gesellschaft) or General Electric Company of Germany...
...HEARST: AN AMERICAN PHENOMENON-John K. Winkler-Simon & Schuster...
...days of June have been variously made famous for their warmth, roses and weddings, but to the educational world they signify the season of commencements. For the past two weeks colleges all over the country have been holding their graduation exercises, and simultaneously has come another phenomenon that has accompanied them of recent years. As the number of students graduated shows a steady increase, the peri's of "mass-production" in education become apparent in many journalistic offices and there appears a succession of editorials "viewing with alarm" this development. Last week the size of the graduating class at Columbia...
...authorities appear to be alarmed but remain apathetic. It is time something is done about it. Accordingly, we take this opportunity of asking the university authorities to remove from Oxford those who are responsible for the phenomenon, which would be faintly comic were it not apt to produce such extremely unpleasant results...
Along with this spirit of questioning has come moreover the tendency to elevate purely scientific standards in comparison with which every phenomenon of life must stand or fall. And out of this has grown what seems to be one of the greatest controversies of contemporary life, that between, science and religion. It is, indeed, whether subconsciously or not, from this controversy that the books by Mr. Spaulding and Dr. Brown--two among many--have come, each representing a different attitude. Mr. Spaulding, a professor of Philosophy at Princeton, has attacked the subject of "What Am I"? and "What Shall...