Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...students and a tobacco-shop proprietor, who took part in a flinging of eggs, ice, bottles, epithets, at Cambridge police in Harvard Square, last winter (TIME, Feb. 21, et seq.). Each of the roisterers was required to give surety of $100 "to keep the peace and be of good behavior." Jail sentences which had been imposed by a lower court were not mentioned; hence, were dropped...
Professor Graton plans to study ore deposition and behavior of rocks at different depths, in order to be able to calculate the conditions that exist at still deeper depths. In addition to places mentioned above he will visit mines in Spain, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and the Belgian Congo. He is being financially aided in this research work by the Bureau of International Research. At the conclusion of his work he will write several articles for scientific publications...
...ALLINGHAMS-May Sinclair -Macmillan ($2.50). To Author Sinclair the most engrossing of all the phenomena of human behavior are those of growth. She writes about children as they get older, watches their instincts and emotions stiffen in the mold, closely observes tendencies hardening into characters. In another book, Arnold Waterlow, she riveted her attention to the slow shaping of a single personality. Now she brings six children into the world of her mind...
...defendants which indicated "consciousness of guilt". It was the evidence introduced on this question of "consciousness of guilt" which let into the case its disturbing elements. Sacco and Vanzetti could not deny that on their arrest they had acted suspiciously, and to rebut the inference from this behavior they expected at the time to be arrested for another offense--for "radical" activities. The opening which they thus gave was "played up" by the prosecuting attorney and much of the trial was devoted to exploiting the radicalism of the defendants at a time when the public mind was in a state...
...esthetes who called themselves the Black Butterflies. Later, when she fell in love with a model young man, she knew she had really got what she wanted. The story of a war of independence is marred by the inability of Author Jordan to raise a real issue between the behavior of eccentric people and that of normal ones. While the normal ones are not brilliantly depicted, the eccentrics are so clumsily drawn that Dorinda, had she been a reader of the book instead of a character in it, would have been sure that they were not real. Yet Elizabeth Jordan...