Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Throughout your Tom Mooney account (TIME, March 21) you imply that there is a studied, histrionic quality in his behavior (apparently confusing Mooney with Muni). In the penultimate paragraph you dispense with implications and make the blatant statement that "Mooney ended ... as usual with a burst of tears, finally recovered enough presence of mind to pose," etc. Does this mean that a man who has not the tact, or art, to conceal his emotion on his respite from prison cannot seriously be considered a victim of injustice...
Explanations. With a Congressional investigation apparently more of a possibility than before but also less of a threat, the strange behavior of the TVA directors still awaited a satisfying explanation. Like many another observer, old George Norris, who this week introduced a compromise resolution demanding a five-man Senate investigation, blamed the split on the unbending personality of Arthur Morgan: "I was shocked beyond expression and suffered untold agony of heart when gradually I began to see that he [Chairman Morgan] was moved by an intense jealousy against some of his associates on the Board, and that his jealousy...
...understand than physics. In time, however, he thinks that man's complex make-up can be plotted and simplified, provided men take over the physicist's skeptical (but not cynical) attitude toward things-in-general. His major discovery, after 300 pages of considering man's odd behavior, is that people are mentally lazy...
...spectators, most of whom had come primarily to see War Admiral in his first big race as a four-year-old, were not disappointed. Oldsters for a moment thought they were watching Big Red, as War Admiral, imitating his famed sire, delayed the race by his shameful behavior at the starting gate, then flashed to the front in the first furlong and stayed there. Breezing down the stretch, War Admiral won as easily as everyone expected. First-prize of $49,550 brought War Admiral's lifetime winnings to $231,625-some $17,000 less than...
...Louis. Recently at a convention of scientists in Indianapolis, Dr. Jauncey described experiments which convinced him that the rest-masses of beta rays (fast electrons) shooting out of Radium E were variable (TIME, Jan. 17). He passed his electrons through a velocity selector, then estimated their masses by their behavior in electrical and magnetic fields. Since then Dr. Jauncey has bombarded the Physical Review with numerous communications backing up his announcement, has reproduced a film on which electrons apparently of varying mass made divergent tracks...