Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vital to the men and women on both sides of the question. Whether the "good guys" or the "bad guys" win probably won't matter much to the Russian satellite or the trouble in the Middle East, but it is the stuff of American politics, and it is a phenomenon that no participant or spectator is likely to forget.Incumbent School Committeeman and Education School Dean JUDSON T. SHAPLIN '42 left talks CCA strategy with former Mayor and incumbent Council-man JOSEPH A. DeGUGLIELMO '29, while JAMES FITZGERALD tears into the CCA for refusing to discuss the qualifications of school appointees...
...theater, of which Rumple is a fair sample, is a glut of achievement. In Porgy and Bess it can boast at least one genuine masterpiece, and in the work of Richard Rogers and Cole Porter it generally displays a very high level of taste and integrity. Furthermore, any cultural phenomenon which shows so much tenacity as the musical theater must fill a real need or it could not exist for thirty or forty years without alteration. Musicals are not only the very distillation of glamor and sophistication, but also hold out the promise that everything is, after...
...surging confidence that steady economic growth can be a reality-that the good things of life can be made available in a growing stream to all our peoples." But to achieve this aim, nations must foster stability as well as growth, i.e., they must combat the "worldwide phenomenon" of inflation...
...blood of St. Januarius, martyred 4th century Bishop of Beneventum. When Januarius was flung to wild bears in the arena, so the story goes, the animals would not harm him; instead, the bishop was beheaded and his blood was collected by a faithful follower. For centuries the phenomenon of the liquefaction has been observed in Naples at regular intervals: on San Gennaro's feast day (Sept. 19). on the Saturday before the first Sunday in May and. occasionally, at other times. The process has taken as long as 22 hours (in 1944) and as little as five seconds...
Skeptics have long theorized and polemicized about the phenomenon without producing a fully convincing natural explanation.* Many Popes have accepted the liquefaction as a miracle, but the church has not acknowledged it officially. Summing up the attitude of his city, one Neapolitan said quietly last week: "Let the poor of Naples have their miracle...