Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...periods of Republican control have produced no such phenomenon. To take this qeustion at its simplest level: no New Deal legislation has thus far been replaced. Indeed, in the 1952 campaign Republican candidates devoted a major share of their speeches trying to convince the voters that any such counterrevolution was the furthest thing from their minds...
Last week, in a flat technical report, the Air Force Cambridge Research Center gave ample evidence that the midnight phenomenon marked a fascinating new breakthrough in high altitude science...
...conducted by Dr. Richard Feynman for students with top-grade averages. It carries no academic credit and is totally unplanned. Theoretical Physicist Feynman has established only two course rules: "Questions can't be prompted by some other Caltech course, and they have to be prompted by some natural phenomenon." In 18 months Feynman's gifted students, mostly sophomores and juniors, have pushed far beyond the standard range into subjects, e.g., quantum mechanics and relativity, that normally belong to the graduate years...
Black Cloud. The paradox of the whole affair was that the storm, despite its beginnings, had turned into a phenomenon so real that it had fooled many a Republican. G.O.P. Chairman Len Hall was one of the first to see it coming and tried to head it off; immediately after Ike announced his intention of running for a second term, Hall hailed Nixon as a "great American," adding, "and a great American is, in my opinion, a strong candidate...
...precisely his restraint and respectability that make Eastland a far more dismaying phenomenon than Vardaman and his ilk ever were. When an old-style Southern politician made an unvarnished appeal to racial hatred, it was possible to dismiss it as a coldly cynical maneuver to get the poor white vote; it was obvious that the decent, educated white people of the South did not feel that way. But when James Eastland soberly proclaims his undying opposition to integrated schools, he is obviously speaking from a profound conviction, and his voice is the authentic voice of most of the South...