Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...restless infants were reported to have cried in the womb, but until relatively modern times doctors and midwives often thought it best not to publicize the fact lest they be accused of witchcraft. Last week in Britain's Lancet, a doctor described a latter-day occurrence of the phenomenon, known as vagitus uterinus (from the Latin vagire, to squall...
...runs West Germany as an iron-willed patriarch, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, hailed by doctors as a "physical phenomenon," turned 81, shrugged off the festivities in his honor because he wants to postpone such fun and games until he is at least 90. Straight and steady as a grandfather clock (he daily trudges up and down the 78 steps leading to his house on a hillside), Adenauer was absorbed in readying his campaign to preside in Bonn for four more years. Mindful of his twelve years of hostile uselessness under the Nazis, Dr. Adenauer is fond of saying: "I have already...
Some diseases. Dr. Wróblewski believes, may signal their onset by changes in the enzyme system before any other symptoms appear. This has already proved valuable in early detection of hepatitis, and Dr. Wróblewski has evidence of it in mouse leukemia. If the phenomenon is confirmed in human leukemia, it would mean that more effective treatment of this and perhaps other malignant diseases could begin sooner...
Author Aradi cites a dictionary definition: "An effect wrought in nature directly by God." He lists seven characteristics of miracles: 1) the phenomenon should be relatively infrequent; 2) it should be reasonable and moral; 3) it should have evident spiritual motivation; 4) it should promote welfare; 5) it is usually instantaneous; 6) its effects should be persistent; 7) it is usually an answer to prayer. These conditions are supposed to be universal, but there are trends in miracles...
Aaron Copland deplored the existence of so much "ancestor worship" among modern music-lovers. He said that the public's desire for "certified" masterpieces in music is a sign of cultural immaturity and a phenomenon not found in other arts, like the legitimate theatre. "Those who want only masterworks," he stated, "wouldn't know the best music if they heard...