Word: phenomena
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During recent years, Dr. Ives has been conducting extensive research in the field of electrical transmission of pictures. Instrumental in the development of airplane photography for the Signal Corps, he also distinguished himself by researches in light and color phenomena...
...principle that he is a shrewd fellow who gets away with what he can while he can? but making a noise like a loose-tongued woman who is losing her reputation and tries to regain it at the expense of her neighbor's? the Denver Posts, morning and evening phenomena published by Fred G. Bonfils, onetime river gambler and circus promoter, last week furnished their niche in the Rocky Mountains with as ingenious a piece of journalism as ever misled simple citizens...
...however, of the greater or lesser critics of things educational are going to judge this latest method of hedging the college degree by such whimsical, tenuous phenomena. They will want to know definitely whether or not this ordeal of fire really tested any ability, really helped an individual toward what might be called "sweetness" what can be called "light...
...ALLINGHAMS-May Sinclair -Macmillan ($2.50). To Author Sinclair the most engrossing of all the phenomena of human behavior are those of growth. She writes about children as they get older, watches their instincts and emotions stiffen in the mold, closely observes tendencies hardening into characters. In another book, Arnold Waterlow, she riveted her attention to the slow shaping of a single personality. Now she brings six children into the world of her mind...
...Amelita Galli-Curci, operatic soprano, went to Chicago, where her press agent inspired her to shrill: "It would be better if more young people loved music. . . . There would not be so many suicides". . . . Sociologist Rudolph Binder of New York University submitted that economic pressure was to "blame," citing suicidal phenomena during hard times and times of saturation in sentimental fiction in Germany. . . Dr. Alfred Adler of Vienna, psychoanalyst, reminded people that the motive for suicide is often a neurotic desire for revenge, as in Japanese hara-kiri (self-disembowelment) upon the doorstep of an insulter...