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Word: behavior (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gibson said he had found cases of panic in other units of the polyglot Allied outfits on the Italian front, but these were mostly individual cases. With the 92nd, he admitted, "the disintegration was likely to be the behavior pattern of ... patrols or platoons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Report on the Negro Soldier | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

Despite their humble origins, microbes are as temperamental as coloraturas. They are fussy about temperature, about food, and about the company they keep. Some like plenty of air, some like none, and some govern their behavior according to whether they get it or not. In an airless, quiet place, yeast will produce wine ; in air it just reproduces itself. To keep such un reliable workers healthy, happy, and productive is the responsibility of a growing new species of industrial scientist, the biological engineer. His job: to reproduce on a factory scale biological processes and conditions none too easy to control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Industrial Microbes | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

Faced with a hastily accomplished fact, Washington and London did not demand the immediate resignations of non-Communist Premier Peter Groza and his "National Front" Cabinet. Instead, the tests of Yalta were: 1) the Groza Government's future behavior; 2) the Kremlin's immediate willingness to talk things over with the U.S. and Britain. And the Kremlin was willing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Yalta at Work | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

...have done in the past. Instead, the Russians quietly released Mme. Tomasz Arciszewska, wife of the London Poles', anti-Russian Premier, whose arrest in Poland had touched off a storm of British protest. If Yalta had done nothing else, it had put the Russians on their best public behavior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Yalta at Work | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

...feels lost in the dark, has difficulty recognizing objects by sense of touch, but excels in visualizing details. A haptical, though no less imaginative than a visual, tends to think in more abstract terms, is better at mechanical jobs, has an acute sense of the bodily results of his behavior (e.g., a haptical pilot is more sensitive to turns in flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Are You Haptical? | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

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