Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Such entertainments are provided by members of the staff at various Yellowstone camps. The staffs are composed for most part of college students, male & female, of whom 700 are chosen from twice that number of applicants; famed for their sprightly behavior, they are called, collectively, "the savages...
...writing of such critics as George Jean Nathan who love to employ dynamite prose for blowing up anything at all just to see how it looks in little bits. "Steeplejack" Huneker, as he was known, liked to exasperate the uplifters of the late Victorian era by his disgraceful behavior. Many a stein of beer he quaffed in scandalous company. Many an adventure he enjoyed because no proper person would. Slyly he defended the social standing of young ladies with bodies like "white satin stoves." He exulted in his holy war on behalf of Chopin. He inspired the admiration, even...
...scoffed at the idea of 'trying to send a new generation into the world with a definite code of "right and wrong" ' and told those young people that the old ideas of 'right' and 'wrong' have been dropped and that the criterion of behavior is simply what we happen to regard as 'beautiful' and 'ugly'- which means, I suppose, that there is no longer any law of God which is binding upon us and that our only standard is our own taste of preference. If this is true, if there...
Moderator Thompson's great problem last year was to dampen the shoutings of Presbyterians who interpreted their creed differently and sincerely. Presbyterian legalists learned a new patience last year for Presbyterian humanists; humanists tolerated the behavior of legalists. As a result Moderator Speer can give his energies to Church administration instead of to pacification...
Ability to pilot a plane is not due to any "bird instinct," but is achieved by knowledge of a few fundamentals of airplane construction and air behavior, by practice in a dual-controlled ship. Then a pilot develops co-ordinations of his nerve centres which enable him to handle his controls automatically, like a policeman on a motorcycle, a taximan...