Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...schools, Lawrence worked his way through local Midwestern colleges selling aluminum ware from door to door, and successfully so, despite the fact that the cakes he baked, as part of his presentation, usually caved flat as a platter. A Ph.D. (Yale, 1925), he spent his early career studying the phenomenon of ionization, began working on the cyclotron as early as 1930. He first demonstrated it that year with a crude but scientifically overwhelming do-it-yourself kit: a kitchen chair, clothes tree, toy-sized four-inch magnet, pie-sized vacuum chamber made of window glass, brass and sealing wax. Nobel...
White stated that the decrease in concentrators might be a temporary phenomenon. "In two or three years the stiffer requirements may increase the department's reputation and attract more and better people," he said...
...acceptance of U.S. women painters in galleries abroad is a comparatively recent phenomenon, but Marcia Bennett's triumph was far from an isolated example. Two other American women are winning rave notices from European art critics, as if to help Marx disprove what she had said...
...army are helpless ... so they let the wave pass, hoping that the Arabs are not fools enough to stay out of doors. In a small town, by the time the fun is over, there will be two or three of them lying in the street ... It is a phenomenon like avalanches in snowy countries. You have to live with the thing. You get used...
...Memo-Passer. Parkinson offers two reasons for the phenomenon: 1) "An official wants to multiply subordinates, not rivals"; 2) "Officials make work for each other." Is Official A's workload making him miss the commuter's special? He will not split his functions with B, a potential rival. Instead he will create two subordinates, C and D who in a relatively short time will also accrete two subordinates apiece. Although soon seven men will do the work formerly done by one, none will be idle, for "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion...