Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slight variations in the day's length, but the moon's influence is not powerful enough to cause such large changes in time as that which occurred in 1897, when the apparent length of the year was changed by one second. Practical reason for studying the phenomenon, he added, is that the length of the day is more variable now than ever and a new change may soon occur...
...Roosevelt story has indeed become a U. S. phenomenon. Reader Larsen's yarn has the odor of age about it, but perhaps TIME readers can report fresher examples...
Said Pediatrician Landon Howard Smith of the University of Oregon, who introduced the Patrick method into Multnomah: "Within twelve hours after birth the infant's skin is clean; the vernix [film covering the newborn] has disappeared! Unless one has witnessed the phenomenon, this miracle does not seem possible. It would appear that if this greasy, slimy, newborn infant, who looks as if he had been rescued from a sewer, were not immediately cleaned up, he would smell like a dead fish in 24 hours. What a contrast to behold him a few hours later looking fresh and clean...
Texas Democrats proceeded to write in a fashion beyond the blackest dreams of old politicos to whom Amateur O'Daniel was a radio freak two months ago, a passing nuisance as late as four weeks ago. On returns from 242 of 254 counties, the No. 1 political phenomenon of 1938 appeared to have received a clear majority, thus to have won the Democratic nomination (equivalent to election) without the formality of a runoff. One of the minority who did not vote for Mr. O'Daniel was Mr. O'Daniel. He had not paid his $1.75 poll...
...more disturbing to earnest Leftists than his estimate of 50,000 jailed was Correspondent Sheean's flat admission that the Nazi regime has won over Viennese workers. "The most important phenomenon but also one which has received the least attention is the power of the Nazis with the workers," wrote Sheean. "The proletariat of Vienna had little reason to love the last two regimes to which it was subjected [those of Chancellors Dollfuss and Schuschnigg]. The new regime appeals very powerfully to the whole lower middle class and to a great part of the workers. . . . Under the new regime...