Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philbert is a horrid-looking infant of prodigious strength and resourcefulness. His face is long and ratlike and his customary costume is diaper, shoes and black socks. He does not speak, but his outrageous behavior usually is explained by his doting mother...
...Unrestrained condemnation of the gambling spirit uttered in ex cathedra fashion by the more articulate critics is likely to prove unconvincing to pupils who themselves indulge in gambling or who have friends who easily accept it as a natural bit of behavior in the sport...
Commented Dr. McGraw last week: "It doesn't make much difference what we do to the child during the first four or five months of life. . . . After that I would recommend intensive training and stimulation of those behavior patterns which are in a rapid period of development- remaining careful, at the same time, to let up during the lulls...
...phenomenon perceptible not in itself but only in cause and effect, the "science" must be constructed along somewhat vague and unstable lines. The same, of course, applies to electricity in the physical science, but the obstacles in the way of the description and explanation of the behavior of either "force," while real, are not insurmountable...
Applauding Tilden for his endurance, Vines for his bulletlike speed, tennis critics last week were favorably impressed by Lott & Stoefen. Given time to grow accustomed to canvas-covered courts, indoor lights, the behavior of spectators who do not feel obliged to remember their good manners. Lott & Stoefen may yet win a majority of their matches on the current tour. Like last year's, it will last 15 weeks, play in 74 cities. Next fortnight's billings: Boston, Providence, New Haven, Cleveland, Detroit, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Chicago, St. Louis...