Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latitude here noted becomes substantiated by further researches, it will appear necessary to apply new corrections to astronomical observations not hitherto recognized. It may very well be that the discrepancies between the results for the positions of stars from widely separated observatories may be largely explained by this phenomenon...
...collection is a book entitled "The Anatomy of Drunkenness." It is by Dr. Robert Macnish of Glasgow, who claims to describe all stages of infoxication from "the delightful stage when one is neither drunk nor sober" to the eventual possibility of spontaneous combustion in extreme cases. This phenomenon was of frequent occurence, according to many authorities besides the Glasgow doctor whose works are in the collection. The burning, to quote from Dr. Macnish again, was of two varieties. "Sometimes the body is consumed by an open fiante flickering over it at other times there is merely a smothered heat without...
Explaining the phenomenon does not make it any the less undesirable. The intellectual curiosity that led men of the Renaissance to restore to the world the literature of Greece and Rome is today turned to scientific rather than literary discoveries; economic and political changes have come so thick and fast during recent year that they have not yet lost the fascination of novelty for the public, but the existence of such a vast expanse out side the mental bounds of any civilization will remain a constant reproach to its leaders until it be included...
...based on accurate scientific investigation is not likely to involve discursions into higher mathematics or other indispensable technical equipment strange to the average undergraduate. Added to the relative simplicity of the scientific background necessary for the comprehension of a lecture of this sort, the wide general interest of a phenomenon which everyone has witnessed should make it attractive to many who do not feel the necessity of leaving Cambridge immediately after a last class...
There is a growing suspicion among those who have studied customs and manners during the past four or five years that the phenomenon known to the newspapers as the Social Whirl is gradually coming to rely upon the services of lower classmen for its masculine support. In the Junior and Senior years there comes to many undergraduates an awakening to the value of evenings spent in College and a coincident distrust of the glittering allurements of the ball room. The consequent open spaces in the ranks of the stags are slowly being filled by members of the Freshman class...