Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germans into visible gloom, some weeping openly in the streets of Berlin. Thus in no uncertain fashion did the anti-Nazi Freedom Station show Adolf Hitler how jumpy were the nerves of his people, how desperate their longing for peace in spite of their great victory over Poland. The phenomenon of joy and grief also provided a fresh explanation for the Nazis' strange reluctance, if German arms are as formidable as they say they are, to get on with...
Modest Negotiator. "National Socialism is not a phenomenon which has grown up in Germany with the malicious intent of thwarting League efforts at revision, but a movement which arose because for fifteen years the most natural human and social rights of a great nation had been suppressed and denied redress...
Perhaps he would grow in understanding if he attacked the problem from an entirely different angle. Instead of attempting to solve issues already confused by misleading propaganda, why not study the nature of war itself? What conditions are necessary to cause this phenomenon which makes men kill their own kind? Perhaps it only requires a single man to bring about such a catastrophe; perhaps factors over which humans have no control are involved. The answer to this question alone should go far toward helping him decide between intervention and isolation...
Twilight of Man is illustrated with Hooton's own drawings, one of which thoroughly illustrates the phenomenon of steatopygia - an accumulation of fat on the posterior - which appears in the females of some primitive human types, and which probably helped some women of the Glacial Period to keep warm when skimpier males crowded them from the fire. Hooton "apologizes" for his drawings thus: "Amateur illustration by an author is like profanity in conversation. It probably serves no useful purpose and certainly is shocking and objectionable to many, but the perpetrator enjoys...
...example, the men who did the original work on photoelectricity, the phenomenon that now magically opens restaurant and railway station doors and performs a thousand sorting jobs in industry, were all pure scientists. And the man who first clarified photoelectricity by describing it mathematically was none other than Albert Einstein...