Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Down Strike, suddenly boomed by the General Motors trouble last December as a new phenomenon in U. S. labor warfare, seemed last week to descend from its peak of the week before (TIME, March 1) almost as rapidly as it had risen. The Sit-Down Strike, as an instrument of Labor policy, was impressively sat upon in many places. It had lost its surprise value as police and employers learned more about combatting it. It was being tried on hard-boiled firms which were not so utterly dependent on public sympathy as General Motors and which could afford to take...
...long been the custom of liberals the world over to shudder at the thought of that military competition between nations known as an "armament race". However, with world conditions as they are today, exactly the opposite view should be taken of the phenomenon. For the cause of democracy in general nothing could be of greater advantage than an arms race. The major countries upholding popular government are Great Britain, France, the United States, and, if one is charitable, Russia. At any rate, the first three named are in the vanguard, and, by a coincidence lucky for democracy, are the three...
Outstanding phenomenon of the ascent was the thick and phosphorescent appearance of the balloon ropes at greater elevations. This, Major Stevens explained, was caused by escape of sea level air and water vapor from the fibers of the rigging, at a pressure one-fifth of normal, which formed a foggy cloud around each rope...
Reporting this phenomenon last week, the city registrar of records also noted that the city death rate was 10.5 per 1,000, and commented: "If conditions continue we shall probably reach a point where the two rates will balance." That point, said New York State's Vital Statistician Dr. Joseph Vital De Porte, who simultaneously reported a similar convergence of birth and death rates in his larger province, will mark "a demographic equinox...
...practice, the resistance does fall in a smooth curve down to one or two degrees above Absolute Zero where it vanishes abruptly although some slight heat is left in the conductor. Then an electric current started in a ring of lead will keep going around the ring indefinitely. This phenomenon is called superconductivity...