Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years of competition, this 5 ft6 in. phenomenon with grey-green eyes, slightly bowed legs and squared shoulders has accomplished feats which for sheer diversity have seldom been equaled by any athlete, male or female. She broke two world records at the 1932 Olympics, was twice selected All-America basketball forward, has pitched for the St. Louis Cardinals (in an exhibition game), and has toured the country giving billiard exhibitions. Anything that requires muscular coordination is her meat. She has excelled at tennis, swimming, diving, bowling, shot-putting, lacrosse, fencing and polo. She can type 86 words a minute...
Said Conant, "This budgetary expansion in the last few years is by no means a unique Harvard phenomenon. Quite the contrary . . . we are relatively conservative...
Doctors and midwives have long known that women nearing the end of pregnancy hate to lie flat on their backs-many complain that it makes them feel weak-but nobody knew why. There is good reason for the phenomenon, Dr. William F. Mengert of Southwestern Medical College reported last week. The heavy-laden uterus can press too hard on the big vessel (vena cava) carrying blood back to the heart, and thus cause a dangerous drop in blood pressure, or shock. Dr. Mengert hopes that his discovery will save such patients from needless operations, because the real remedy...
...current retreat from Christianity, as Anglican Casserley sees it, is not solely a modern phenomenon; other times have had their lapses too. What distinguishes the retreat now is its confusion, and one of the two "avenues" it takes. The first, the retreat into the "vacuum" of irreligion, has always been a passing phase. The second is far more dangerous. It occurred when disciples of the "scientific outlook" or "atheist humanism," who began their movements as a protest against Christianity, fell prey to substitute "religions" of their own devising. "[This] retreat from Christianity into religion . . . may fill that [spiritual] vacuum . . . giving...
...American museum is, after all, neither an abandoned European palace nor a solution for storing and classifying the accumulated national wealth of the past. It is an American phenomenon, developed by the people, for the people...