Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since a team of Russian military advisers and technicians dropped in last January, Albania's youngish (38) dictator, Enver Hoxha (rhymes with got cha) has been as truculent as a small boy who thinks his big brother can lick anybody. Last week his behavior had reached a point where Washington and London could no longer afford to ignore...
Chemistry. To three biochemists, explorers of the intricate reactions within living organisms. Half went to Professor James Batcheller Sumner of Cornell, first to isolate an enzyme (urease) in crystalline form. Enzymes are "organic catalysts" which influence the chemical behavior of substances concerned with life. Said Dr. Sumner: "Living cells contain hundreds if not thousands of enzymes, and one definition of life is action by those enzymes, wherein such phenomena occur as growth, reproduction and other biological changes...
Regular teachers conduct the once-a-week sessions. They start out by telling an anecdote, reading a poem, a short story or newspaper clipping, or playing a transcribed radio program. The kids are encouraged, says Colonel Bullis, to "speculate on the motivations lying back of the behavior [discussed] and indicate parallel situations from their own personal experience...
...made meteorites will be carried aloft in an Army version of the German V-2 rockets, it was announced by Dr. Fred L. Whipple, of the Harvard College Observatory today. These rockets will be part of the Army's efforts to study the behavior of projectiles in the sub-stratosphere, it was revealed...
...Liberal Union, after hearing C. Fayette Taylor, M.I.T. professor and vice-chairman of the Massachusetts Independent Citizens PAC, condemn Rankin's action, voted last night to distribute petitions among the student body today backing Shapley's position. Taylor himself had expressed hope that such behavior by Rankin and the committee would lead to a recognition by Congress of the group's nature and finally its discontinuance...