Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Great Western, whipped his friends wildly about in its little observation cars. When he died in 1937 at the age of 71, he declared in his will: "I would consider it more than unfortunate for me should I find myself doomed after death to a continued consciousness of the behavior of mankind on this planet, to discover that . . . my home . . . my railway line with its bridges, trestles, tunnels . . . my locomotives and cars . . . should reveal themselves to me as in the possession of some blithering saphead who had no conception of where he is or with what surrounded." Last week, after...
...defense of hot-to-handle personalities (Revolutionists Rosa Luxemburg, Ernst Thalmann, Kurt Eisner). He was said to be the only lawyer who ever got Hitler on the witness stand, and on that occasion (a 1932 libel trial) so enraged Adolf that he shouted himself into a fine for unruly behavior. Dr. Rosenfeld escaped from Germany the next year...
...viruses responsible for many ills, from the common cold to infantile paralysis, was reported by the Rockefeller Institute's Dr. Max A. Lauffer. His colleague Dr. Wendell M. Stanley had advanced the theory that one virus (tobacco mosaic) was a giant protein molecule which, contrary to the usual behavior of molecules, can reproduce itself within living cells. To prove this theory, Dr. Lauffer used a high-speed whirling machine that works like a cream separator. He whirled a solution of tobacco mosaic protein, to separate the protein molecules from the rest of the solution (and presumably from the virus...
...began lopping off one New Deal head after the other, professional liberals have viewed his shift to the right with bewildered alarm. Last week the New Republic's intellectual George Soule, who is known in liberal circles for his antiseptic aloofness, quietly dissected Franklin Roosevelt's recent behavior, pointed toward some cool conclusions. Wrote dispassionate Pundit Soule...
...Republic" or "The Nation," joins the Liberal Union here, and believes "by his very nature, man is good and all one has to do is give him knowledge to keep him in this state." He claimed that Liberals in their theories tend to overestimate the role of human behavior...