Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conquest of China (her Manchukuoan conquest is still unrecognized, too). Japan may still do as she likes since the U. S. is too far away to interfere, but until Japan behaves like a civilized state and makes lawful, orderly proposals, the U. S. will lot condone her behavior...
Busy Hormone. Prolactin also inhibits the activity of the sex glands, which is obviously nature's way of quieting the distraction of sex urges when parental behavior and responsibility are called for. And either alone or in concert with other hormones, it maintains the weight of abdominal organs; controls basal metabolism (heat production) ; promotes appetite; and probably also affects the metabolism of carbohydrates...
...Voice took to the Chautauqua circuit as a lecturer on human behavior, has been a steady broadcaster since 1926. His radio salary of $2,000 a week is augmented by lectures, sales of his books and pamphlets. That he is stumped by few human problems is evident from the titles of his 300 pamphlets. Some of them: Love and How to Express It, Acidosis (and how to overcome it), Promiscuous Kissing, The Care of the Skin, Disciplining Your Child, Insomnia, War of the Sexes, Feminine Shapeliness, Have You Been Jilted? Although the pamphlets cost 3? each, a listener whose troubles...
...present persecutions of Jews in Germany are what are commonly called outrages. They are properly so called by people who believe that decency in behavior is one of the elementary rules of action for civilized community is built. They are outrages politically as well as morally. But they are outrages first of all because they offend normal human feeling; it takes pathological terms to describe the men who can dictate such acts, as well as the man whose "healthy" instincts thrive on committing them. If we bring ourselves to any vivid realization of them they become unbearable...
...Rico's San Juan harbor is the wooded, 36-acre island of Santiago. There 500 macaques, or rhesus monkeys, landed last week, having voyaged 14,000 miles from India in 51 days. Columbia University intends to establish on Santiago a "free-ranging primate colony." Purpose: research on primate behavior, glands, reproduction and tropical diseases. As from Alcatraz, the only mode of escape from Santiago is by swimming...