Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miss Ijams' behavior alone will Californians remember the university's 63rd Charter Day. Before Robert Gordon Sproul became president, the University of California never had a Charter Day speaker more liberal than Nicholas Murray Butler or David Starr Jordan. Walter Lippmann two years ago was a starter. But Pundit Lippmann had no such enemies on the West Coast as "Madam Queen" has among the San Francisco businessmen. Because she declined to use her department to weed out and deport alleged Reds, many a San Franciscan still believes that the Secretary of Labor was somehow morally responsible for last...
Professor Lashley received an A.B., 1910, University of West Virginia; M.S., 1911, University of Pittsburgh; and Ph.D., 1914. Johns Hopkins. He was a member of the faculty of the University of Minnesota from 1917 to 1926; was psychologist under the Behavior Research Fund of the Institute for Juvenile Research, 1927-29; and has been professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago since...
...later life I still wanted it because I considered it a great property. In the 1920's I was negotiating to buy it from the late Henry Walters when J. P. Morgan heard about it and persuaded Mr. Walters not to sell to me. Mr. Morgan's behavior was understandable. He and I have never been allied...
...Palestine was in Greek waters on her maiden trip from Haifa to Trieste when the Greek revolution enveloped her like a dark cloud. What chiefly worried the Jewish crew and captain of the 10,000-ton Tel Aviv ("Hill of Spring") was not the revolution, however, but the behavior of a tall, lean-faced man who paced nervously up & down the promenade deck, wandered disconsolately between the kosher kitchen and the ship's synagog. Tel Aviv's owner, President Arnold Bernstein of Palestine Navigation Co., was impatient to get ashore, hurry to Paris for the annual spring meeting...
...usually supposed to do. Inbreeding in a stock which has latent defects will naturally intensify those traits. I can't say that race mixture in this case has been harmful. . . . The people are superior physically and are also a hardworking, intelligent lot. In psychology and behavior they are predominantly British...