Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...powers. In last autumn's heated mayoralty campaign, the Mayor had whoppingly intimated that in one of its decisions the State Court of Appeals had been "fixed." So curious onlookers last week expected to see the sparks fly. But protean Mr. LaGuardia was on his rare best behavior...
...laws broken by helium II, and not yet completely revised to accommodate its eccentric behavior, concern 1) the flow of fluids, 2) the flow of heat. Some of its lawbreaking properties so far discovered by English, Dutch, Russian and U.S. researchers...
...This behavior fits none of the most hallowed formulas, whose Greek and Roman letters now lie tumbled about like a child's alphabet blocks. Faced with the need for elaborate rebuilding of formulas, Physicist Darrow exults: "To have come on a fluid like this is like finding unexplored land in the midst of an ancient community, or a tract of primeval prairie among the cornfields of the Middle West...
Actually U.S. behavior did not compare unfavorably with Britain's behavior at war's outset (London and Berlin both had false air-raid alarms in September...
...Musical Courier's newly published letters (TIME, Nov. 3) had less to do with Meyerbeer's heelish behavior than with Wagner's hypocrisy-or worse. Let Reader Bold recall Biographer Newman's summing up of the Meyerbeer case: "There can be no doubt that he [Meyerbeer] exerted himself for Wagner both in Paris and in Berlin. . . It becomes more and more difficult to put up any defense against the oft-repeated charge against Wagner of ingratitude to his benefactors...