Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London councilor's remark: "Every man carries his caste mark in his mouth." But last week, with diction and elocution classes flourishing throughout Britain and the BBC spreading its own slightly precious brand of proper accent into every home, caste-conscious Britain was still confronted by an unexpected phenomenon of the welfare state: equality of opportunity had eased the economic tensions in Marx-proclaimed "class conflict," but it had led to a sharp increase in what the sociologists call "status conflict"-in other words, snobbism...
...Ralph Cordiner and the atomic energy industry, the telephone-man cover on A.T. & T., and the rise of American Motors' George Romney and the compact car. The result of the team work between Gart and Jamieson, and the story of the financial world's fastest-growing phenomenon, you can read in the BUSINESS cover story on The Prudent...
...last decade, the funds have become the fastest-growing, most competitive and most controversial phenomenon of the U.S. financial world. Ten years ago they had fewer than a million shareholders with $1.5 billion invested. Last week they had nearly 3,900,000 with $14 billion invested in more than 200 different funds...
...sharp first pulse has long been a puzzle. But last week Dr. Arthur Kantrowitz of the Avco Research Laboratory at Everett, Mass, reported that he and his scientists had successfully simulated this solar phenomenon in the laboratory, and offered an explanation...
Last week, with the case of the murderous petty officer as his text, the Menninger Clinic's Dr. Joseph Satten offered the American Psychiatric Association an explanation of a phenomenon that has long baffled both courts and psychiatrists. Most murderers fall into one of two neat classes: the legally sane, who have an understandable motive such as robbery, and the legally insane, such as the paranoid who kills his imagined persecutor. But now and then there appears a third type -the man who kills without apparent motive, yet appears sane before and after the crime...