Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Numerous people had numerous explanations, aside from the Wagner Act, for this staggering and sometimes frightening phenomenon. One of the reasons was the increase in employment. But the House was certain that it had put its disciplinary finger on the basic reason. The reason was not the U.S. worker-"deprived," as the labor committee said, "of his dignity as an individual . . . cajoled, coerced, intimidated and on many occasions beaten up. . . . The employer's plight has likewise not been happy." The committee blamed the unions, which the Wagner Act had made into a "tyranny more despotic than one could think...
...This will be one of the most serious depressions the United States has ever had, a most amazing phenomenon which will affect the whole world," the former Vice-President told the Centre d'Etudes de la Politique Etrangere, a French organization similar to the Foreign Policy Association in the United States...
Students who are interested in language "as a phenomenon" or who want the use of language "as a tool" will find an extremely competent department--one of five or six of its kind in the country--ready to serve them in the form of Comparative Philology...
...Report indicates, the modern press is a social phenomenon grown to such proportions in influencing the minds of men that it cannot any longer be considered private property responsible to no one but its owners. Its responsibility nowadays is primarily to the community. Therefore, some control becomes inescapable. "The freedom of the press can remain a right of those who publish only if it incorporates into itself the right of the citizen and the public interest." If it continues to be in so many cases inflammatory, irresponsible, and sensational, an increasing demand will inevitably come forth for a federal control...
According to Lampy's Newsweek, the most important development of the past week has been the advent of Spring--which has had widespread repercussions from Capitol Hill to the Kremlin. Typical comment upon this earth-shaking phenomenon was that recorded by Senator Clag R. Polecat, "who said he know the dangers of overeating in hot weather. I was young once,' he cracked, 'but I'm grey-haired and sharp-eyed...