Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...call to this chair a scholar pre-eminent in the field of political economy. This vital subject has to do, I take it, with the fundamental principles which govern human affairs, as they concern the State and as they concern individuals. Political economy concerns itself as much with the behavior of man as a social animal as it does with any known laws of industry and trade and agriculture and finance. And when I speak of fundamental principles I do not mean old principles or new ones, or conservative principles any more than radical principles, but rather those principles which...
...predict his own behavior 24 hours in advance...
...stinking piece of fish indeed lay beneath the sauce. At home and overseas the nation was seized by a conviction that in the behavior of His Majesty's Government there were elements of treachery, cowardice and stupidity. This was an impression created by the building up of layer on layer of popular impressions...
...Down East" is a gently relaxing New England pastoral. All the scenes are skilfully convincing, so that the audience, even allows such preposterous behavior as Henry, Fonda's turning Rochelle Hudson out into the storm. When the local gossip strides off to the skating party, one is amused; when Andy Devine comes in out of the stormy night, one is convulsed. The entire picture breathes a homely old-fashioned warmth. One becomes a little nostalgic for skating parties, sleigh rides, socials, and the days before the good roads had come to let the outsiders in and the insiders...
Ordinary medical minds cannot contain all the minutiae concerning the blood vessels and the circulation of blood which have been discovered during the past ten years. Therefore, last summer, 16 doctors who had persistently and thoroughly studied the behavior of the arteries, veins and smaller vessels formed a special medical club. This week the learned American Heart Association blesses those new specialists by formally adopting their club...