Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...number of geometric diagrams and a lot of peeking into the plumbing of "the sympathico-adrenal system," that laughter is a form of self-assertion. This section of the book also notes some pedagogical experiments in what Koestler gravely calls "the functioning of the original squirm reflex"-a phenomenon further documented in his book by laboratory experiments in what happens when scientists tickle babies...
March 24, 1945 (on a camp at Bergen-Belsen). "It was a common thing to get hold of a corpse to sleep on, so as to keep dry. Nor was cannibalism a rare phenomenon. One Norwegian saw a prisoner cut the liver out of a dead body...
...second phenomenon of the game was the gay abandon with which North eastern coach Herb Gallagher inserted his three lines. At no time during the game was there any guarantee that the Huskie first line would be replaced by the second. Nor did the makeup of the forward walls remain constant. Northeastern ace Jim Bell appeared as a cenlor, wing, and defenseman. Unfortunately the variety of Bell's roles had no damaging effects on his scoring skill and he collected three of Northeastern's five goals...
Super-Animal. The miracle of Dogpatch had become a greater national phenomenon than Lena the Hyena; culturally it had surpassed even Sadie Hawkins day. To New York Herald Tribune Radio Columnist John Crosby, who thought he detected a likeness between the whiskered shmoo and a certain Chicago newspaper publisher, the book was "one of the finest satiric creations since Gulliver's Travels." (No, said Capp modestly, that was overrating Dean Swift.) To Dr. Frederic Wertham, a Manhattan psychiatrist who crusades against comic books, the shmoo offered "a solution of human problems on the same spurious level as Nietzsche...
...above Mach 5 (five times the speed of sound). When wind tunnels are forced to this speed, and a few of them can be, they hit a fantastic difficulty. The air expands and gets so cold that its oxygen and nitrogen condense into liquids. Princeton will study this disturbing phenomenon and try to deal with it before the practical engineers start working at Mach...