Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spirits, is stronger than ever. And where there is so much smoke, there ought to be a little fire. But Professor MacDougall has limited his study to the field of mental telepathy. Of this "though transference" there are so many evidences that few can doubt the existence of the phenomenon...
...composition in Europe indicates the approach of another general war," Mr. Stock opined. The music grows wilder and more hysterical, with a frenzy of new disharmonies, new sensations. It is an increasingly mad and neurotic development in the most fluent and sensitive of the arts. Mr. Stock related this phenomenon in music to the general artistic and social case of nerves and brain fever to be observed everywhere, the insane quest for excitement and thrills, barbarous dances. In music this disturbance of the spirit is reflected the most vividly. From such a state of mind comes...
Stephen Benét has read constantly and rapidly from cradle days.He has assembled to his mind an extraordinary array of facts and fancies. His poetry bristles with them. Simple, honest, retiring, he is a phenomenon not often encountered among the literary young men of our time. He is a contributor to these pages...
...largest squad in the history of the University" the days of football are ushered in. Gloom emanates daily from New Haven on account of the ineligible Sophomores and from Princeton for some other well-known reason. But pre-season gloom from the camps of the enemy is a customary phenomenon to the football world. Coach Roper has a bad habit of fooling most of the people until about November first by predicting chaos for his team, and at Yale championship Freshman teams always dwindle to nothingness in the autumn of their sophomore year. Beyond reporting the extraordinary number of candidates...
...April 21.) The Lick Observatory expedition at Wallal, Australia, during the solar eclipse of last September, obtained what Dr. Campbell considered thoroughly satisfactory verification of the Einstein effect, and will make no special attempt to photograph it. Most of the other expeditions, however, will devote special attention to this phenomenon...