Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hugh Kenner, a Contributing Editor of Poetry, said on the final evening of the conference, "the Little Magazine is largely an academic phenomenon,...and our civilization is in a very perilous situation when its writers are driven into the universities...
...with statistics how well the younger generation is being brought up in the New China. They boast that some 5,000 state-run nurseries and more than 1,900 nursing rooms, caring for 192,000 children, have now been set up in industrial and mining enterprises "to avoid the phenomenon of mothers' being unable to join production because of their children." Result: nine out of ten women in Red China are now "suitably employed...
...advantage over chlorpromazine that large doses can be given to calm acutely disturbed patients. Cincinnati's Dr. Douglas Goldman reports that it often produces turbulence after a few days, which may be mistaken by attendants for a worsening of the illness, but the turbulence is a passing phenomenon. Mississippi's Dr. Veronica Pennington finds that the most enduring tranquilization of state-hospital patients comes from reserpine; its effects persist as long as a month after the last dose has been administered. To cut down the cases of depression caused by reserpine, one manufacturer (Ciba) is combining it with...
...elect their own constituent assembly, kept control only of security (courts and police), defense and foreign affairs. The British hoped to get a democratic government with which they could make a long-term arrangement for final independence. What they got was a coalition left-wing government and a phenomenon fully representative of volatile, multiracial Singapore: Chief Minister David Marshall...
...unorthodox reaction to it all. Said the National Broadcasting Co.'s Ray Scherer: "You have generally said that you find yourself amazed that people would take the trouble to vote for you. I wonder if I could presume to ask why you find that such a phenomenon...