Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jittery and hot oil shipments increased slightly but the flood of illegal oil which had been predicted failed to materialize. Word was passed to the big hot-oilers to keep the field quiet while legislation was pending in Washington. Bitterly opposed to Federal regulation, Texas was on its best behavior...
...welfare to politicians instead of training experts. "One of the strangest things to me," he says again, "is how we bow down before the dicta of physicists and close our mind to the findings of fundamental economists." But how different, Mr. Neilson, is the predictability of matter and the behavior of the complex organism called man. How comparatively easy to test the validity of a physical law and how extremely difficult to test a law in which the human element plays so large a part...
Another eminent subject of King George to whom the behavior of Great Britons appeared fantastic last week was the League's Australian-born Saar Commissioner, Mr. Geoffrey Knox. When he asked last March for what he suddenly got last week, namely a League Army to police the Saar, everyone in Geneva sat on him, none harder than Sir John Simon...
Special attention will be paid to problems of alkalosis, the dissociation curve of haemoglobin, the fuel for musclar work at great attitudes, special characteristics of mountain dwellers, dehydration, the efficiency of sugars as food, and the behavior of the special senses...
...sleeps in a cage. Her daily chore is to help with the sweeping. Meshie lavishes her greatest affection on Mary, aged 2. Until lately, when Meshie's strength became dangerous, she played with Mary, coddled her, fed her milk from a bottle (see cut). Biggest reward for good behavior that Meshie can get is to ride in an open car or an elevator. At home she likes to scoot around on her kiddy-car. Since maturity, Meshie has become temperamental: on being scolded she sulks, will pay no attention to blandishments. When pleased she giggles; when excited she screams...