Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German garage. With an air-cooled rear engine, and a luggage compartment under the hood, it was the first of 600 which Germany is shipping to the U.S. to sell at $1,280 to $1,997. The Volkswagen's appearance was the latest example of a new business phenomenon: the growing revival of export trade in both Germany and Japan. Two weeks ago, the South African government ordered 100 steam locomotives from Krupp of Essen, who offered a lower bid and swifter delivery than any one of a score of U.S., British and other competing firms. Rosenthal china...
Investigations into illegal gambling in the U.S. tend to be as stylized as burlesque shows. But some are more entertaining than others; there have been few finer examples of the phenomenon than the Senate hearings on Florida crime, conducted in Miami last week by Tennessee's agile Senator Estes Kefauver. The Senator and his investigators managed to half unveil such titillating glimpses of skulduggery and to inspire such righteously innocent denials that even hardened Miamians seemed fascinated...
...excerpts from his journals, printed with fragments of an autobiography and part of an unfinished book (Leo died in 1949), shows mainly how bitterly he resented it. Many of the letters are petulant complaints about Gertrude's success. "I simply cannot take Gertrude seriously as a literary phenomenon." The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas riled him especially. "God what a liar she is!" One of the last things he wrote was a memorandum about his dislike of her and all her works. In 1946, when he heard that she was dead of cancer, he wrote...
...primordial as the individual. Society is erected on nothing but the sacrifices each of us makes of his individualism in order to enjoy the supposed advantages of social living. Man, in common with the other animals, is a biologic unit and his civilization is a latter-day phenomenon...
Cooperation has become something of a postwar phenomenon. The South took the lead when its governors met in 1947 to organize a regional plan for Southern higher education. Now, for the first time, the South will share its facilities, sending medical, dental and veterinary medicine students wherever the best schools, public or private, may be. Thus a university can afford to be strong in one field without wasting its substance in trying to com pete in all the others...