Word: phenomenon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first and only regular job, as a reporter for William Randolph Hearst, whom he seldom saw but about whom he was to do his most ambitious writing prior to this book in a series for The New Yorker, Manhattan smartchart, later bound as Hearst, An American Phenomenon. Author Winkler left the newsgathering business five years ago but still sleeps by day, works or plays by night. Closely related to a Baptist minister, it is perhaps through this connection that he met his latest subject. Or perhaps he golfed with Rockefeller cronies, kept record of their reminiscences. Those parts...
Taggers Tagged? Sirs: For quite a while I have been watching the license tags on the automobiles that visit California, and I wish your advice on a very curious phenomenon. All the states of this country and the provinces of Canada require two tags, one in front and one in the rear, and both exactly alike.* However, three states, Arkansas, Texas and Tennessee, at various time, have seen fit to require the word "front" on the front license, and "rear" on the rear one.† It occurred to me in this connection that these States have passed laws banning...
...Astronomer Director Wolf of the Königstuhl Observatory near Heidelberg squinted at the white pall through telescopes and announced that it was a mass of finely powdered lava blown high in the air from erupting Vesuvius (TIME. June 17). He warned Bavarians to expect the usual volcanic twilight phenomenon - the whole sky turning orange at sunset and staying so long after the sun has gone down...
...This perhaps is the only method by which to study a phenomenon which is occurring today. . . . Although Italy produces excellent automobiles, admired by and exported to the whole world, Italians purchase American motor cars in considerable numbers...
...famed and potent Van Sweringen brothers. They were stationed, too, for the purpose of foiling, baffling and frustrating the interests of Cleveland's less famed but also potent Taplin brothers. For between the Van Sweringens and the Taplins exists a long-standing feud, which last week resulted in the phenomenon of a railroad with two presidents, two sets of directors, and two allegedly controlling factions...