Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...annual wail of a desperate crew management is again put in print before a Freshman class. It is a peculiar phenomenon that year after year when the time for departure to New London approaches, a large per cent. of first year men are found to have been wanting in class loyalty to such an extent that they have considered themselves unable to support their crew. In the tardy, most men are out riding, rowing, or playing tennis till very late in the afternoon, and do not return from dinner in time for a 7 o'clock concert...
...shall not go to the writers of the Romantic School for a definition of Romanticism. These writers are too deeply engaged in the movement. We shall explain the production of the phenomenon by the general laws of life. An ideal becomes antiquated; another ideal is formed to take its place...
Physical Colloquium. Relations of high Electromotive Force to the Rontgen phenomenon. Professor Trowbridge. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Room...
...Friday.Physical Colloquium. Relations of high Electromotive Force to the Rontgen phenomenon. Professor Trowbridge. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Room...
...early time this wealth amounted to hundreds of millions of our money. This is the all important fact in the history of the precious metals down to the Macedonian conquest. That it should have reached into the hundreds of millions is a miracle, and it was to contemplate this phenomenon that this lecture goes back to the early ages. How was it possible that such a result should be attained? Why should so large an amount of labor have been put into this form of wealth, when the conditions of human existence were so strait and painful? Why, when bread...