Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indeed consumed the moon. Then a little sliver of moon swung into sight. The peasants redoubled their firing. The dragon yielded up still more moon. At 10:21 the moon once more rode high and bright over Islam. The peasants, on whom Dictator Kamal Ataturk has forced such civilized behavior as wearing derbies and unveiling their women, felt better...
...discovery of the positive electron, a fundamental particle of matter. 2) The geographic distribution of the rays facilitates study of Earth's magnetic field. 3) For laboratory work cosmic rays provide atomic bullets thousands of times more powerful than any produced by man. 4) Their behavior at high voltages has already indicated a deficiency of electrodynamic theory which must be rectified. 5) Since about 30 pass through the human body every second, they may have some effect on life & death...
...deacon in the Baptist Church, Dr. Compton attends nearly every Sunday, is actively interested in missions, Y. M. C. A. and settlement work. Like Britain's Eddington, he sees in Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle (which avers that the behavior of electrons is unpredictable) evidence that man is not an automaton in a mechanistic universe, but a free agent responsible to his Creator. "Science can have no quarrel," says Arthur Compton. ''with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are as His children...
...would like to know how Mr. Warren would have defined the "best ideals" of the culture of the United States, and what kind of personal behavior would best exemplify it? Is racial discrimination one of its essential characteristics? Is it to judge a man's character and worth by the accident of his parent's birthplace? Is it to restrict or regulate a person's opportunities by the history of his grandparents? The terms of the bequest imply all that. We doubt, however, whether these elements represent the ideals and culture of the United States as expressed by such Americans...
...female (TIME, June ii 1934). There Gua, 7½-months, proved herself smarter in many respects than Donald Kellogg, 10 months (TIME. June 19 1933 et ante). There chimpanzees have proved that, although they cannot talk they can think and make rational decisions, that their intelligence and behavior are akin to human intelligence and behavior...