Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their best behavior were the 500 gentlemen at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. last week for the 23rd annual convention of the Investment Bankers Association of America. A more sophisticated group than the commercial bankers who rumbled into Washington last fortnight only to have their leaders surrender to the White House, the investment bankers kept their fulminations strictly to themselves. Scrupulously deleted from the IBA's official press releases were all exciting passages...
...Satan attends morning service at a fashionable church with a tycoon who is the principal pew-holder, consequently gets away with some very questionable behavior...
...actions have seemed to a kindly and learned man in New Haven to be of supreme importance to Science. Fruit of that belief appeared last week in the form of a monumental, 15½-lb. compendium in two volumes, illustrated with 3,200 action photographs: An Atlas of Infant Behavior,* by Arnold Lucius Gesell, M. D., Ph.D., Sc.D., director of Yale University's Clinic of Child Development...
...Gesell has subtitled his work: "A systematic delineation of the forms and early growth of human behavior patterns." A baby's mind grows like his body, and like his body, his psychological make-up is an organic structure. It is revealed at any stage in behavior forms. Infantile behavior is vastly complex, but not, Dr. Gesell was certain, beyond recording...
...Russian convicts . . . are granted furloughs from time to time so that they can go home and see their families for a few days. . . . Why not laws in this country granting visits home-carefully checked, of course, by prison officials and local police to prevent escapes-as rewards for good behavior in prison...