Word: phenomena
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These widely differing accounts make it seem clear that more than one meteor fell, and accordingly Dr. Fisher has begun a scientific investigation of the phenomena. The Harvard Observatory has issued the following questionnaire...
...Freshmen, and have showered us continually with brickbats of advice, I feel that several opportunities have been neglected. Not that I want to criticize: as yet I have felt no ill effects from the punch served at the Union's Freshman Reception, nor have I encountered any antediluvian phenomena since the jovial Phillips Brooks House reception. Still I feel sure that if Dean Whitney had for two long weeks, day and night, been submitted to the none too tender mercies of those pertinacious individuals who swarm around the Freshman dormitories with pressing contracts from 'The Varmint' and "The Varlet...
...Shapley further reports that during trance the Psychic freed the fingers of her left hand from his grasp and appeared to be using them to assist in the production of phenomena. Code reports an similar freeing of the Psychic's right hand during trance and a rather more extensive use of that hand in the production of phenomena...
Obviously, there were two "accomplices," each one being wise enough to say nothing during the seance, as otherwise we should have had no phenomena at all. This use of the hands when the feet were adequately controlled showed us clearly "Walter's" limitations, and greatly contributed to the solution of our problem. Very truly yours, S. Foster Damon, Hudson Hoagland, John Marshall, Robert Hillyer...
...several years to come will probably be shot through with the Klan issue. All the wiser for this set-back, the Klan will be even more skilful in the future; and the country will do well to keep the example of Facismo in mind, with all its attendant phenomena of press censorship, interference with local authority, and rule by a bigoted and militant minority...