Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest was capable British police inquiry throughout the United Kingdom for citizens who had missed a pair of women. Up to this time Dr. Ruxton's neighbors had credulously accepted his casual references to Mrs. Ruxton's erratic behavior in having gone away for a visit and taken along the children's nurse, without a word to him or any of them...
Author Smith writes with lucid detachment of the formal yet vividly human behavior of his Japanese, the confusion in the minds of the young generation about their duties, their chances in life. The extremes of poverty and industrialism in Tokyo, the meaningless political suicides, the continual troop movements toward Manchuria, are keenly described. Despite several soft episodes and what will seem to many readers an over-facile ending, the novel has the steady strength of an almost reportorial reality...
...time, space, gravity, the finite speed of light; quantum mechanics with particles, electricity, the action of light. The two are not only separate but in some cases conflict. Relativity dispenses with the idea of absolute time; quantum mechanics retains it. Although it is a tremendously powerful approach to atomic behavior, quantum mechanics is shot through with uncertainty. It has given birth to the Uncertainty Principle of Heisenberg, which states that the position and velocity of an electron cannot be simultaneously ascertained. In the Schrödinger wave mechanics, the little symbol ψ is important. It stands, roughly, for statistical probability...
...there any physicist who believes that we shall never get any inside view [of the behavior of single electrons]? To believe this is logically possible without contradiction; but it is so very contrary to my scientific instinct that I cannot forego the search for a more complete conception...
...Rothney of the Graduate School of Education yesterday published his opinion, based on investigations in three Massachusetts towns, that a child's future success in life can be judged by his first year in primary school. Those students who, at the age of six, showed qualities of leadership, good behavior, concentration, intelligence and high scholastic standing, Dr. Rothney maintains, are now holding jobs, while those displaying a lack of these attributes are among the ranks of the unemployed. The latitude of this statement, valuable as the direction of the research obviously is, leaves ample room for legitimate doubts and questions...