Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First part of an airplane to ice up in heavy weather is its windshield. It usually becomes opaque as a bathroom window long before wings and propeller begin to take on ice. Standard flying-field crack to pilots complaining about this phenomenon is "Get yourself a windshield wiper." Last week this ironic wheeze became reasonable advice...
...most violent atomic explosion ever accomplished by human agency (TIME, Feb. 6). This news, known then only to a few insiders, streaked over the physical world like a meteor. By last week a half-dozen leading science journals were popping with reports confirming, extending or interpreting the original phenomenon...
...suggestion that Harvard dig more deeply into its corporate packet and allocate funds for a new purpose, is always suspect on grounds of practicability--however laudable the project may be. Occasionally, however, the phenomenon of a constructive reform which is also inexpensive, comes to light; and in the need for a Center of Romance Civilization, such a combination is to be found...
...cannot be accepted as the measure of achievement, nor should popular success be allowed to outweigh the judgment of professionally competent opinion. The presence in the upper ranks of the faculty of a few professors who are apparently exempt from the usual research requirements is not a very conspicuous phenomenon at Harvard, but it is demoralizing to the younger...
...medieval age," said he, "had its wandering scholar. We have our itinerant or fleeting scholar. Hundreds of thousands of these itinerant students move from college to college, each armed with his letter of credit." Dr. Jessup found that collegiate hoboism, once thought of as a shiftless, spendthrift, boomtime phenomenon, had in the past few years reached appalling proportions. Although it is commonly supposed that the typical college student enters as a freshman and emerges from the same college with a diploma four years later, actually today most students transfer or drop out before commencement day. Only one-third receive degrees...