Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frank Learoyd Boyden of Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Mass., is something of a phenomenon in U.S. education. He is a wiry little man of 72 who speaks with a Yankee twang, likes to drive a horse & buggy, and claims to know very little about his profession ("I was never tied up with theories"). But Frank Boyden may well be the most famous and beloved headmaster in the nation. He calls himself "a" country sort of person who likes boys...
...between big freezer makers and big frozen-food processors, though both, (out of fear of retaliation by retailers) were letting local agents handle things on an "independent" basis. But the selling of home freezers together with frozen foods at discount prices is already a tremendous new U.S. merchandising phenomenon. So-called "food plans" have been springing up all over...
...every word as front-page news. "Please," she pleaded at one point, when she was questioned about American race problems, "do not read Uncle Tom's Cabin and believe it represents the United States today." Indian Statesman Sir Benegal Rau spoke of her as a U.S. phenomenon comparable to Niagara Falls. In Bombay an admiring Indian textile worker spread ice yards of silk in her path up a tenement district stairway. She went right on being Mrs. Roosevelt. She "performed namas-kar" repeatedly, once giving some wealthy hosts the jim jams by using it to salute the footmen...
...cement [no kin to Portland stone] was made about a century ago. I am aware that steel and concrete building can be good, that it puts all kinds of possibilities before us-such as houses wider at the top than at the bottom . . . [But] it represents that terrifying new phenomenon, man mechanized and living cut off from his land, from the rock out of which he has come...
...determination and persistence of its snow is no new phenomenon for Cambridge. A few years ago a couple of Sno-Gos-those goose-necked tractors which effectively chew up snow and squirt it into trucks--briefly appeared in the Square, then disappeared without a trace. In their wake returned the good old snowplows, smearing the snow into well-glazed flat surfaces and impenetrable mounds...