Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this unfamiliar phenomenon electrical engineers took little note until three years ago when Karl Boyer McEachron, General Electric Co.'s ace lightning researcher, started a study of bolts which strike Manhattan's 1,230-foot Empire State Building, a giant lightning rod. During his study Mr. McEachron observed that several strokes which hit the skyscraper made no noise. Last week he had an explanation...
...cinema industry was occupied with an erratic progression from its beginning in nickelodeons to its last phenomenon, screwball comedies. In 1938 the industry stopped going forward, began going backward. The retrogression took three forms: 1) a series of revivals of old pictures, from The Sheik to Dracula; 2) a series of remakes, from If I Were King to The Adventures of Robin Hood; 3) a series of disguised remakes and delayed sequels like Going Places, The Chaser, Tarzan's Revenge...
Moreover, some responses are not due to one hormone, but to the combined action of two or more. This phenomenon is called "synergism." The work of Evans and others convinced many a gland man that the pituitary secreted a "growth hormone." Riddle's researches, however, tend to show that growth is a synergic response to two hormones, thyrotropin and prolactin. He also believes that this same pair get together in another synergism to maintain body heat...
...Riddle's opinion, the higher vertebrates have a dual control system, the brain and the pituitary. That they are closely associated is shown by the ability of prolactin to produce a psychological phenomenon, maternal behavior. How hormones work on the brain and nervous system remains a stubborn mystery. The fact of their association, however, shows that mind and body are not separate, that a living organism is one "body-mind." Says he: "The mind has been firmly placed in an evolutionary frame. . . . The consciousness of dog and man has evolved . . . in the same unbroken way that the function...
...possible to explain in exact mathematical terms-in terms of atomic energy levels and electronspins-what happens when insulin is secreted in the pancreas, when starch is broken down in the digestive system, when an ovum is penetrated and fertilized by a spermatozoon, many & many a complex biological phenomenon...