Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Joint Amnesty Committee had been agitating for their release for many months. President Harding, a few weeks before his death, liberated several of these prisoners, some of them under conditions of good behavior, deportation, etc. Several of these "liberated" prisoners are still in jail because they refused freedom except with unconditional pardon. In the appointment of the new investigating board a Christmas amnesty is foreseen...
...character of the mental development of the child up to six is by no means purely or preeminently intellectual. Almost from the beginning it is social, emotional, moral and denotes the organization of a personality. The infant acquires perceptions and motor coordination; he is incorporating modes of behavior which do not, of course, constitute a mature personality, but which psychologically are at the core of personality...
General Erich von Ludendorff was reported about to be forgiven by the Bavarian Government for his part in the recently attempted monarchist putsch (TIME, Nov. 19). His "honorable conduct as a retired officer" and his " spotless" behavior in the putsch received mention...
...examined 289 high school seniors in a city on the Pacific coast for traces of ignorant animus against the Japanese, and found that half these students believed war between Japan and America to be inevitable, while only a third denied this or thought war to be conditional on the behavior of the two nations. The significant fact is that the reasons in the first case tended to be of a primitive nature, while in the second case they indicated intelligence and-more important-information. The moral is: Inform, the assumption being that knowledge is the chief enemy of prejudice...
Evidently the Administrative Board considers that the class of 1926 has learned its lesson, and that the outbursts of last spring will not be repeated. It trusts that the pledges signed will be sufficient to assure good behavior in the future, and, by removing the disciplinary measure of probation, it frees itself from the accusation of exacting a pledge of good faith and at the same time of inflicting punishment...