Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even to those who fully sensed the U.S. public's indignation at Harry Truman's summary firing of the nation's No. 1 soldier, it was an amazing phenomenon. For even to those who looked on his battle plan for Asia with misgiving, Douglas MacArthur was a hero, a brave, powder-stained old warrior-statesman who had already taken his place in history beside Grant and Lee, Pershing and Farragut. The very sound of his name-after a steady diet of heroes who seemed half-ashamed of being heroes at all-seemed to leave millions with...
Experiments on the phenomenon, long an enigma, have been going on here for over a year. George Wald, professor of Biology, Ruth H. Hubbard, research fellow in Biology, and Paul K. Brown, reported to the Society last year that they could manufacture synthetic rhodopsin, a red pigment found in the retina which helps translate light waves into the sensation of sight...
...rise and fall of the war scare has been an interesting political phenomenon to Smith but little else. Applications for the Class of 1955 are normal, and the college does not anticipate any faculty changes other than adjustments to demand by students on certain departments. There is, it is haltingly admitted, a slight upswing in the marriage frequency...
...phenomenon of the wetbacks is not new, but until World War II, it was not a large one. The war siphoned off agricultural labor, particularly lowpaying, exhausting "stoop labor" along the lower Rio Grande, in New Mexico, Arizona and California. The wetbacks rushed into the vacuum...
...critics had watched her rise to stardom in seven Broadway plays, had seen her eclipsed by lesser stars in six Hollywood pictures. But in Playwright F. Hugh Herbert's fresh and frothy comedy, The Moon Is Blue (TIME, March 19), Barbara had returned to Broadway as that rare phenomenon-an ingenue...