Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experiment, tends to grow bored and look for something else when the research reaches a stage where long routine labor is in prospect. He once, it is now known, had the Raman Effect** in his apparatus, trembling on the verge of detection, but he did not detect it. The phenomenon was discovered in 1928 by Physicist Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman of India, who received the Nobel Prize in 1930. In his humbler moments, Wood admits that, even had he discovered the phenomenon, he did not have the theoretical background which would have conveyed to him its importance. But in experimental physics...
...devotion of Nathan Pereles, Jr. '04, to Harvard University is a strange phenomenon. When his election to the dual office of President of the Associated Harvard Clubs and Director of the Harvard Alumni Association was recently announced, people glanced at his record and said it was a "good thing," "the right man," of made some other automatic comment. Yet the study of that record brings every college man to a consideration of what his alma mater is worth...
...Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud begins with Freud's amiable observations on the common phenomenon of forgetting. Aside from its jawbreaking title (The Psychopathology of Everyday Life) this is homely and domestic stuff, telling about people who forget their keys, lock themselves out of rooms which-unconsciously -they do not want to enter, forget the names of people they pretend to like, and forget engagements they do not want to keep. In this universal comedy of psychological errors, typesetters drop words from headlines, proofreaders overlook absurd mistakes, genteel ladies make slips of the tongue which transform innocent sentences into...
...that young men are not the only ones, was a truism examined last week at a Manhattan medical celebration. At the opening of Mount Sinai Hospital's enlarged department of physical therapy, Professor Henry Cuthbert Bazett of the University of Pennsylvania gave an explanation for this seasonal phenomenon. In spring, said Professor Bazett, a human being's blood volume increases by a fifth to a third. He learned this fact by immuring himself in an air-conditioned laboratory for twelve days last winter. Outside it was sleety & cold; in the room the temperature was 90° during...
...social life of big prisons such as Sing Sing, convicts tend to form groups, and each group has a leader. The phenomenon of leadership in prisons is of considerable interest to prison officials, because they think that leaders are troublemakers. It is also of interest to sociologists as a part of general convict psychology. In Sing Sing, Richard Whitney is a celebrity and a man apart, but he is not likely to become a group leader. This was indicated last week by a thoroughgoing analysis of leadership in prison which appeared in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology...