Word: phenomenon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...which assigned a definite quota to the countries in Europe, Asia and Africa, it makes little difference in the alien population of the U. S. whether or not there is a bad potato crop in Ireland or a revolution in Hungary. Immigration has become a standpat, almost mechanical phenomenon. Compare the figures for the last two years...
...town of Brighton, Eng., where middle-class Londoners go for weekends, Aubrey Vincent Beardsley was born in 1872. At eleven he was a musical phenomenon; he played the piano in a concert with his sister. Also he wrote. Also he drew. Also he sold insurance. Friends, seeing that he was too lazy to be a pianist, begged him to take up art. He was encouraged by Sir Edward Burne-Jones and Puvis de Chav annes. He borrowed from Japanese art its use of the single line and its penchant for ornamental perversions. He dressed neatly in an ordinary fashion...
...among the educated class of American people. Primarily, of course, the postponement of marriage necessitated by a college education reduces the size of families. Secondly, fewer marriages and higher standards of living affect the increase of American racial stock. However, the decrease is more a social than a racial phenomenon. With the increase of Intellectual development, higher standards of selection and frequently the desire for single existence rather than married life result...
...know that you only make up a little over 6% of the world's population, and yet you are so industrious that you consume between 37% and 75% of the world's production of coal, iron, copper, rubber, petroleum and many another commodity? The reason for this phenomenon is simple. Your industries which manufacture competitive products are protected by the tariff. Hence your labor is kept busy, your standard of living is high and you can buy from other countries...
Fascism, Italian phenomenon, was denounced, deplored...