Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exceedingly complex (Korzybski calls it a "non-Aristotelian system"), but its method of instruction is simple. Chief instrument of training is the "structural differential." By handling this implement, students (who call it "the semantic rosary") learn graphically that there are different, "nonidentical" orders of meaning connected with each basic phenomenon. Thus, one plate in the implement represents a phenomenon (e.g., an apple), and the holes in it represent its infinite number of scientific characteristics, some perceptible to man, some unknown. Linked to that is a disc representing the physical, perceptible object, and to that in turn are linked labels which...
...pious, highly literate city of Columbus, Ohio, enough Sunday newspapers were printed last week to build a dam of comics, features and news across the Olentangy River. A phenomenon in modern U. S. journalism had taken place: two new full-size Sunday newspapers were started on the same day in the same city...
Though lunar eclipses are less frequent than solar eclipses, more people see them because the darkened moon is visible from a whole hemisphere of earth. Totality of this week's lunar eclipse lasted 1 hr. 23 min. For a brief interval on the Atlantic seaboard a remarkable phenomenon was on view. The moon rose, fully eclipsed, six minutes before sunset. Thus for that time both bodies were visible where there was a clear view from horizon to horizon. Explanation...
Characterizing the loss by the Demoerats of several seats in the House and Senate as "a normal political phenomenon," Holcomber hold that any change contemplated in the traditional alignment of the parties before the vote could still be brought about...
...Roosevelt victory of 1936," the professor stated, "but should not be interpreted either as an unqualified rebuke to the Roosevelt leadership of the Democratic party or sure augury of greater Republican successes in 1940." Gains by the opposition party at the mid-term Congressional election are a normal political phenomenon...