Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...behavior of Mrs. Nellie Tipton Muench, who also claimed to be the mother of the baby, Commissioner Limbaugh found much to suspect. The red-headed modiste, with two arrests for larceny against her, had been implicated in the kidnapping of Dr. Isaac Dee Kelley in 1931. Two of the men with whom Mrs. Muench was alleged to have engineered this snatch were sent to prison for long terms. The trial of Mrs. Muench, sister of a Missouri Supreme Court Justice, was frequently delayed to let public sentiment against her cool...
...Observatory if anything peculiar had showed up in the spectrohelioscope observations on the fade-out days. Back came word that on July 6, Aug. 30 and Oct. 24, within a few minutes of the fading, huge clumps of gas on the sun had manifested marked changes in form and behavior...
Rats, cats, chickens, squirrels, white mice, guinea pigs, and monkeys have had regular "behavior tests" for the last five years on the top floor of Boylston Hall. This year the Department of Psychology has removed its overflow menagerie to the new Biological Laboratories...
Last summer Queen Astrid of the Belgians was killed when an automobile driven by her King slipped off a Swiss road, hurtled 95 ft. before it crashed into a tree (TIME, Sept. 9). That tragedy, said Physiologist Yandell Henderson of Yale last week, moved him to inquire into the behavior of drivers involved in such accidents. Many a driver explains: "The car went out of control." To Dr. Henderson it seemed rather that the motorist went out of control. When a driver is jounced off balance in his seat, a powerful reflex comes into play to restore his equilibrium...
Cried Wafd General Secretary Nahas Makram Ebeid: "Britain in her behavior toward Egypt makes Mussolini appear comparatively benevolent...