Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government set up by the victorious Cantonese forces at Wuchang (TIME, Dec. 13) was on its best behavior last week as British Minister Miles Wedderburn Lampson arrived at Hankow just across the Yangtze. An anti-British strike which had impended at Hankow was called off. The Cantonese General Chiang Kai-shek and the Contonese Foreign Minister Dr. Eugene Chen received Minister Lampson in state, as well as Japanese and U.S. consular representatives...
...further study of life after death. She told how she had been converted to spiritualism by the ouija board and the inexplicable "residue" left in mediumistic trances after all cheating had been subtracted. Mrs. Austin's faith resulted from her studies of primitive American Indian customs and the behavior of animals at the approach of death...
...reading will be held in the Main Dining Room of the Union. The subject of Professor Copeland's reading will be "Old Favorites and New," and will contain selections from the works of such writers as Thackeray, Kipling, Robert Benchley '12, and Donald Ogden Stewart, the author of "Perfect Behavior...
...whole organization through an oligarchy, an executive committee. President Schwab wanted sole control. He objected to hearing an influential director ordering him to build a steel plant at Chicago, when he, the direct operator, needed a plant at Pittsburgh. The Judge was further irritated by President Schwab's behavior at Monte Carlo. Reports came that the very President of the U. S. Steel Corp., that "good" corporation, was reveling on the Riviera, that he was playing roulette, vingt-et-un, chemin-de-fer and baccarat for stakes of thousands of dollars. Mr. Schwab has never smoked. He has drunk...
...comes as a distinct shock, therefore, to learn that a member of the School who is guilty of missing a single lecture, is deemed by Dean Pound to be "prima facie an undesirable student", and is threatened with expulsion. It is true that all hope is not lost. Perfect behavior on the part of the "undesirable" may avert the consequences of his grave misconduct. But the taint of the original sin remains forever...