Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Passage. Polaroid's 3-D bonanza is only a wider opening in a vein it has been profitably mining for years. The phenomenon of polarized light has been a scientific curiosity for at least two centuries, but Land, as a teen-age youngster experimenting in his home laboratory, was the first to find a way to exploit it. He impregnated plastic with tiny needle-like crystals that allowed only light waves vibrating in a single plane to pass through. As a physics student at Harvard, Land perfected the idea, and left before graduation to found his own company...
...speed up pedestrian movement on downtown street corners, Barnes set traffic lights to stop all automobiles dead for an interval and instructed people on foot to hustle across intersections, catty-cornered if they wished. The phenomenon was jeeringly christened "Barnes's dance." Barnes was unabashed. To win his critics over, he spoke at community meetings answered questions on a Thursday-night radio program, cruised through the streets for hours every week to watch traffic at firsthand...
...Saucers' 'is popular science at it best. It can be recommended to at least four groups: those who believe in flying saucers; those who do not believe in them; those who do not know what to believe; and those who are interested in a first rate analysis of a phenomenon in social psychology...
Land-Office Business. This caused another phenomenon. Neon-lit slot-machine satellite towns began springing up just outside city limits-Garden City just outside Boise; Jerome, outside Twin Falls; State Line Village just over the boundary from Spokane, Wash. They did a land-office business. Meanwhile, other slot-machine towns assumed new, weird shapes: the village of Crouch, for instance, pushed its limits out in a strip one foot wide and 10 miles long, to make slot machines legal in a distant roadhouse...
Other important results have been the development of new instrumentation techniques. Probably the most unique among these is the hot wire aenomometer, a device which measures the velocity of an air stream by measuring the cooling effect of the stream on a hot wire. With this instrument, the phenomenon called rotating stall, where the air flow across a rotor blade is destroyed, was first discovered here...