Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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People who resent hearing Jesus called "first Rotarian" resent also he kindred phenomenon of a smooth-spoken advertising expert exercising his facile dictaphone to bring home truths about religion with which most literate people consider themselves perfectly conversant. Critics have derided Mr. Barton's writings for carrying he strong odor of professional publicity and for the seeming presumptuousness of the titles: Nobody Knows." The implication is: "Nobody knows but Bruce Barton, and many people are affronted by such mixtures of religious with secular talk as "Christianity was launched as a short-time proposition." . . . "Preachers . . . believed the world would be . . . liquidated...
...beguiled by the appeliation of "cultured young American" into answering the questionnaires anent the modern girl sent out recently by a New York daily, will never be known; nor what heights of wit were reached by the frivolous minded. The whole absurd business, however, marks still more plainly a phenomenon of the last few years; a persistent attempt on the part of certain newspapers and magazines to "play up" the life of the college student. A college suicide, a fatal automobile accident involving an undergraduate is featured in headlines worthy of a declaration...
Such was the phenomenon brought to light by one Robert Marshall, tree experimenter of Missoula, Mont. In the Nation, he wrote: observed a peculiar biological-political relationship in the annual rings of the trees. Three marked periods of retarded growth were manifest, just prior to 1828, 1884 and 1912. These were the years of major catastrophes for Republicans. In 1828, log-cabin-and-hard-cider Andrew Jackson smote them down; in 1884, rotund-reformer Grover Cleveland, in 1912, scholar Woodrow Wilson. ... It struck me that possibly the same lack of rainfall which caused the trees to wane also caused...
...gleaned below, John Farrar, Yale graduate and editor of "The Bookman", is alarmed for his college and for Princeton. Harvard hath charms, he finds, but he does not know why. It is really not such a surprising phenomenon...
...contemporaries the Crimson candidate is a puzzling psychological phenomenon," declared William I Nichols '26, president of the Crimson...