Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Second, they would establish a competent central diplomatic staff of five members, with the Secretary of State as chairman ex-officio, to hold office during good behavior, which would remove these systems from all partisan political interference. This staff would make all appointments within the diplomatic and consular services...
...problems of humans are attacked by those who leave out of consideration the behavior of humans. It is utterly unscientific. It is trying to place in the realm of pure thought problems which have little pure thought in them. Sociology is a branch of learning not open to metaphysics, but calls as much for a careful observation of facts as a physical science...
...other hand we may feel proud of the behavior of the troops in this first action. The official "communique" says that the men were worthy of American military traditions. We may let the Germans gloat and fly their banners on Unter den Linden; they will hear more from the "North Americans...
Every large city should have two institutions for the study of human behavior; psychiatric clinic for the study of methods useful in assisting persons to readjust their lives; and Department of Mental Hygiene, chief functions of which are prevention of maladjustment. Around these two institutions may be grouped other institutional agencies devoted to the study of human behavior. These institutions include the home, college, juvenile court, courts, home for dependents, prisons, organizations for the study of social conditions and the improvement of these conditions. Our success in the great struggle in which we have entered calls for a mobilization...
...United States from ocean to ocean is grieved and shocked at the prospect of war with Germany, and would have accepted any honorable settlement; but it would be dishonorable to allow our commerce to be destroyed or excluded from the high seas as the price of peace. The behavior of the officers and crews of the German merchant ships in our ports is one of the many proofs that it is impossible to preserve peace with a nation which so contemns the dignity, rights, and laws of the American Union...