Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heinrich Hertz (1857-94) discovered electro-magnetic waves. Light was realized to be an electro-magnetic phenomenon...
Coherent Field Theory. The natural phenomenon for which the general theory of relativity did not account was electromagnetism. Dr. Einstein in 1905 had shown that electricity and magnetism were different aspects of one world activity. In 1919 he showed that gravity was another world activity. It was impossible, he believed, that gravity and electro-magnetism were two distinct world activities. His Riemann metric must be inaccurate...
...rhythmic action of its own, with alternate periods of spasm or contraction, lasting a half-hour to an hour and one-half, with periods of rest be tween. Animals from the snail to man, and humans from prematurely born infants to the aged, all show the same phenomenon. It is not a nerve action. The motor nerves are not involved, although action of the sensitory nerves is needed before hunger can be felt. When the sugar content of the blood is low the spasms in the stomach are much greater than when the sugar content is high. Therein...
...opening paragraph of President Lowell's article calls attention to a fact which disposes of the arguments so frequently put forward by the wets that prohibition is the cause of the general moral laxity of the crime wave and other unsociable phenomenon of the present day. It states, "As strenuous exertion is followed by fatigue, so a violent moral effort, when the cause that produced it is removed, is succeeded by moral lassitude and therewith a turning of attention into very different channels. That this revulsion of spirit should be expected to follow peace is now recognized by those...
...which the Baroness denies) conducted by a smooth character who turned out to be ex-jailbird and Parisian hairdresser. This Philippe prophesied a son; the Empress believed herself with child; a date was publicly announced, and excitement ran high. But no child appeared-the Empress having suffered the undignified phenomenon of phantom birth...