Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hazing day," a phenomenon unknown in the 'Cliffe Yard, will lead off tonight's agenda, which also includes the problem of publicizing the workings of Student Government and the machinery of Student Government organizations such as judicial boards...
...Thomas Masaryk's first book, printed in German in 1881, was an examination of the causes of "suicide as a mass phenomenon." He later put some of the material into a collection of essays called Modern Man and Religion...
...phenomenon of snowbunnies is not so simple as it seems, for just as there are various grades of skiers, snowbunnies too have their nuances. Most baldfaced fraud is the towrider. This young lady goes up the tow bright and early in the morning wearing her immaculate Saks ski suit and carrying a pair of brand new skis. She hovers around the top of the tow (snowbunnies ALWAYS go to the resorts with tows) for an hour and then slyly hops on it again for the ride down...
Last week, 20 years after their first broadcast, Amos 'n' Andy were still a radio phenomenon. And Freeman (Amos) Gosden, 48, and Charles (Andy) Correll, 58, were making a bid to become the grand old men of television as well. Last week, after years of ups & downs, their show (Tues. 9 p.m., NBC) was well within the charmed circle of every radio poll (eighth on Hooper's list; second, according to Nielsen...
...stood by their short, wiry skipper. The fog into which he had raced at 26 knots, they said, had seemed like a mere wisp. Littler had used radar for eyes, and for once radar had proved to be blind. Radarmen said the fog might have caused an extremely rare phenomenon, shooting the radar waves upward so that a nearby target would be undetected. Pleaded Defense Counsel Roland Ritchie: "Is this man to be a martyr to this triumph of nature over science...