Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though Author Mumford examines the ideas and behavior of medieval men at exhaustive length, he concludes that, since Jesus' time, the prevailing condition of man has been chiefly the ups & downs of imbalance. Man has spoiled even his best ideas by excess or by clinging to them long after they were dated. Thus...
...under their long inaction, he addressed them and was roundly booed. This time the troops knew that action could not be long delayed. Cabled the suspicious correspondent of the King-hating Toronto Evening Telegram: "C.O.'s had been primed to caution their men . . . to be on their best behavior. . . ." The only grouse heard from the ranks was the not-so-cryptic remark of a hard-bitten private with no love for dress parades: "I wonder if they can read our thoughts...
What Gentlemen Don't Do. Doris Duke Cromwell's behavior, her husband charged, was the chief cause of his humiliating defeat when he ran for U.S. Senator from New Jersey in 1940. During the summer, Mrs. Cromwell had been ill at Shangrila, her lush Hawaiian estate with an orchid-hung solarium and a $20,000 hydraulically elevated diving board. When Mrs. Cromwell's secretary learned that Politician Cromwell planned to rush to his wife's bedside, she telephoned from Hawaii to warn him that he would not be welcome -that he would, in fact, be locked...
...behavior of the Luftwaffe fighter command was still unpredictable. Its commander, General Hans Stumpff, sometimes met Allied attacks with the old massive fury, but more often his fighter power looked threadbare...
...three year period of dormancy, the Psychology Club held a well attended meeting last Friday night in Boylston 31 and elected dual sets of officers, one group for the Radcliffe portion of the club and another for the Harvard membership. After the elections film studies of the psychological behavior of rats made by Orval H. Mowrer, associate professor of Education, were shown and refreshments were served...