Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cleveland findings so far confirm the impression that infertility is more common among well-educated and high-income groups. Doctors admit that this phenomenon baffles them. Their guess: lack of outdoor exercise and greater emotional strain may have something to do with...
...remote backwoods fishing camp near Quebec's Baie des Chaleurs, a big-business phenomenon came to an end last week. George Washington Hill (TIME, Sept. 9), 61, president of American Tobacco Co., died of a heart attack...
...ever noticed, when looking at a photographic group taken 20 years ago," asks Lord David Cecil, "that it is impossible to judge which women are well dressed, for all the clothes look equally grotesque; whereas in a group taken 40 years ago some were clearly charming? The same phenomenon is true of literature. . . . A certain time must elapse before we can easily separate what is permanent in an artist's work from what is temporary...
Mountains of Them. Most upset by this phenomenon was Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson. At a "famine luncheon" for foreign relief in Washington last week he lamented: "There are mountains of [potatoes]. The Department has one man in a top executive job who can do nothing but buy them. We set a goal for 1946 of 378,000,000 bushels. It looks now as though the crop will be 445,000,000 bushels. How's that for a test of the ability of the Department to control production...
...wine is good, though, and the dress shops and perfume counters again bear testimony to that peculiar aspect of French genius. Thanks to the industrious, if not too successful efforts of the dye industry, France today is a nation of blonde women and dark men--certainly an interesting biological phenomenon. Paris, August...