Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lord Willingdon well knew, Indian Nationalists were celebrating the third anniversary of St. Gandhi's declaration of independence. The Mahatma himself, rewarded for his good behavior in jail by permission to receive one visitor each week, squatted in his cell and talked to Disciple Madeline Slade about the two pounds he has gained. But outside Gandhites were far from peaceful...
...Crash Behavior...
...highlands. Most of the company are prosaic folk. One, however, is not. She is Eunice Wolfhill, young wife of the expedition's leader. He has married her so he can claim an extra 300 acres of Government land. She has married him for no apparent reason. Her fluttery, unnatural behavior leads the others to whisper that she has witch blood in her. It is she who first becomes sensitive to the Indian drums which dog the trail day and night...
...generally supposed, the cinema has an important influence upon the behavior of cinemaddicts, there will presently be a large increase in the total number of U. S. strumpets. Norma Shearer, Constance Bennett, Elissa Landi, Helen Hayes, Claudette Colbert, Tallulah Bankhead, Evelyn Brent, Greta Garbo, Ruth Chatterton, Marlene Dietrich and Genevieve Tobin have all in recent pictures attractively performed functions ranging from noble prostitution to carefree concupiscence. A Free Soul, Strangers May Kiss, Susan Lenox: Her Fall & Rise, Once a Lady, Morocco, Body & Soul, An American Tragedy, The Sin of Madelon Claudet, My Sin, The Smiling Lieutenant, Born to Love prove...
...made up of two main parts: the yolk-like nucleus and the oily cytoplasm. Both nucleus and cytoplasm contain solid and liquid portions; in addition they contain further specialized units of matter: in the nucleus, membrane, nucleolus, chromosomes; in the cytoplasm, membrane, granules, vacuoles, plastids. It is the behavior of these infinitesimal units that biologists are now trying to study...