Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Skyscrapers, subways, slums and slicks, seven million people from the Bronx to Coney, that's the phenomenon people call New York City. It's a world within a nation, a monster cosmopolitanism which, like most great things, defies definition. Vinton Freedley, Jr. has written, and the Dramatic Club has produced a play about New York. They have not tried to define it, but they have, within the limits of stagecraft, tried to reproduce some of its many facets. To realize the ambitions ideal they set up for themselves, the Dramatic Club has used a cast of more than...
True extent of the suppression of the German people, of their obsession with being downtrodden, remains invisible until they are given even the slightest jot of authority. Meekest lambs in submission become vindictive tomcats in office. Last week Hermann Göring took official and stern notice of this phenomenon, even more apparent since war work has added many a new name to the official rolls, in a proclamation on bureaucracy...
...photograph of a rare outdoor night scene showing long, slim, spindle-shaped pillars of fire apparently streaming into the sky was last week turned up by Scientific American. Taken by an amateur photographer at Wilbur, Wash., it was a picture of the meteorological phenomenon called "pillar halos." One authority on the physics of the air, Dr. William Jackson Humphreys of the U. S. Weather Bureau, pronounced it the best picture of pillar halos he had ever seen...
...most articulate and ubiquitous of U. S. divines, Dr. Charles Francis Potter, onetime Baptist, onetime Unitarian, onetime Universalist. Long a popularizer of religion, in books and lectures, Dr. Potter is currently absorbed with the study of extrasensory perception (telepathy, clairvoyance, prophecy), believes it possible to identify this phenomenon with Humanism. It has been Dr. Potter's custom to brighten his services by such devices as using rosebuds to baptize babies. He has made his Humanists work at their rather insubstantial faith by devoting themselves to self-improvement (through art, music, etc.) and to human improvement, through cooperation with "progressive...
Ideological pontiff of the Christian Front, much as he today denies it, is the rabble-rousing baritone of Royal Oak, Mich., Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin. A successful phenomenon of Depression (during which he espoused inflation), a flop in Recovery (in 1936 he backed William Lemke to beat Franklin Roosevelt for President), Radiorator Coughlin began his comeback in Depression II. One Sunday in November last year, he shook his grey-flecked locks and launched into an explanation of why Hitler was renewing his persecutions of the Jews. Naziism, explained Father Coughlin, was a "defense mechanism" against Communism; and Communism was inspired...