Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Enter Nazis. Unable to compete abroad, the German business class cried weakly for a directing savior. In their happiest times they had always had one. The immediately pre-Hitler years were the years of the phenomenon of "tired capitalism"; the German cartelized business structure, which was inextricably merged with five big banks, did not know the rules of intramural competition. Then came the first Nazi experiments with a rigidly controlled system, with businessmen retained as managers in their own plants, but with the Government allocating raw materials, dictating wages and prices and limiting and forcing new investment in accordance with...
...many years physicians have known that powerful doses of X-rays will destroy cancer cells, but no scientist had ever worked out a satisfactory theory for this phenomenon. Two years ago Italian-born Physicist Gioacchino Failla, who is in charge of the physics and biophysics laboratories at Manhattan's famed Memorial Hospital, suggested a straight-forward physical theory for the lethal effect of X-rays. An electric charge passing through a cell, said Dr. Failla, divides the molecules of protoplasm into positively and negatively charged particles. These ions then recombine to form new chemical substances. In a vain attempt...
Professor Mott examines the founding and passing of the periodicals; the phenomenon of a shifting popular favor; tendencies in circulation, advertising, payment of authors and editors; costs of publication; and the development of class journals...
...stuff to newspapers as well as to students of mass psychology, the phenomenon of erroneously attributed wildfire tales like last week's is fairly new stuff to radio. Re-examination of WMCA's letters revealed that no correspondent claimed to have heard the broadcast himself. Likeliest solution to the mystery lurked, not on the air waves, but in the files of the Amsterdam News in Harlem, whence thousands of Negroes go daily to gossipy jobs all over the metropolitan area. Not long ago the Amsterdam News reported a similar wraith operating in the neighborhood of Kansas City...
...feared, half-welcome guest" among art teachers, a testimony rather to our caution than to our sense of responsibility to the world in which we live. Contemporary art is likely, among teachers, to be regarded as a trouble some continuation of nineteenth century art, rather than a phenomenon which requires not only special knowledge but a rather unusual critical equipment for its comprehension or its appraisal. Few college graduates can say that they have given much time or much thought, in their fine arts courses, to Surrealism, the murals of Orozco, or the Federal Art Projects. Few scholars feel that...