Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Primary need of the theatre business is crowds with money. Consequently, the theatre has always been an urban institution. About ten years ago, a variety of circumstances, including talking pictures and U. S. vacation habits, gave impetus to that paradoxical phenomenon: the summer theatre in the country...
This last phenomenon was deduced by my 12-year-old son in 78 seconds flat and for his sluggishness I will deduct 10? from his weekly allowance...
...many a run-of-the-mine U. S. politician, Franklin Roosevelt is a phenomenon as overpowering and unpredictable as lightning. But bald, compact Banker Herbert Henry Lehman, who served under Franklin Roosevelt as lieutenant governor of New York from 1929 to 1933, and succeeded him in Albany when he went to the White House, has yet to be overpowered by his old friend Frank. Since Governor Lehman saw fit to attack the President's Court Plan last year, he has become an increasingly candid friend. Last week, independent Governor Lehman abruptly swept some of the Administration's political...
...Gorki All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine, thinks he has contradictory evidence. Irina & Galina's two heads share the same blood stream, but they wink, blink & nod off to sleep at different times. Sleep, reasons the professor, as did his celebrated predecessor, Ivan Pavlov, must be a nervous phenomenon...
That Margaret Countess of Holland bore 365 children at once 600 years ago no one believes. No incontestable records of the phenomenon exist. Even Canada's honest Elzire Dionne might have been called a backwoods impostor if one or more of the Quintuplets had died and been disposed of before photographers got there to record the scene. But at Liverpool, England, Mrs. George Taylor of Purgin Street took no such chances when last May she felt that she might set some sort of nativity record. She had herself Xrayed, and sure enough she was carrying quadruplets...