Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...classed by age as "seniors" (16-18 years), "juniors" (13-15), and "midgets" (11-12). They buy from peddlers who refuse to sell to anyone older than 18 lest he turn out to be a detective. ¶ Sweaters have been bursting into flame all over the country. The phenomenon began about a month ago in Los Angeles when an auto driver's sweater took fire as he lit a cigarette. By last week a score of similar cases had been reported as far east as New England; there were no deaths but numerous burns. The garments, made of highly...
Your Dec. 17 account of the proposal of the name shake for a unit of time equal to one-hundredth microsecond was interesting, but tended to leave the impression that such minute intervals are a very recent phenomenon in physics . . . During the war, in order to avoid using the somewhat revealing word "microsecond" in telephone conversations, it was dubbed the "dollar" in one section of the Manhattan project, so that what is now a shake became a "penny." The "jiffy" has been used for one ten-thousandth of a shake and probably for other short intervals...
...public they deserved. As 1951 drew to a close, Rachel Carson's triumph of popular science, The Sea Around Us, headed the nonfiction bestsellers, and Herman Wouk's clear-eyed novel about the war at sea, The Caine Mutiny, topped the fiction list. But the biggest single phenomenon was the success of the paperbound reprints. With about 100,000 drugstores, newsstands and bookstores displaying them, the paper-bounds sold the staggering total of 231 million copies-or about two for every man, woman & child in the U.S. over the age of ten. Reprints of serious novels did better...
...winning its two games this season, the varsity both times has taken a large part of the first period to settle down and start out-scoring its opponents. Shepard can't explain this phenomenon, but he does not anticipate that it will appear again tonight...
...intention, however, of giving up acting. Providence might see fit any day now to change his income from $1,500 a year to $1,500 a week, a phenomenon by no means unusual in television. Until then, Miller says cheerfully, "I like the way I live, so I'll just keep doing...