Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Presumably the reasoning behind this drastic behavior was that : 1 ) Germany's smashing offensive portended a quick peace, which would abort the aircraft and lesser export booms, 2) a Germanized Europe and axified world would end all extra-hemispheric trade, close European markets to North & South American commodities. Another bearish factor was technical: margin calls. When the selling started, swarms of little fellows, others not so little, were forced to raise a few hundred dollars with which to keep their positions in war babies like North American Aviation (down 8⅞ points by Tuesday's close...
Most significant of all was the behavior of the scrap steel market. It forgot all about its normal 20% dependence on exports, remembered only that it grows scarce when heavy industry booms, countered the week's trend by rising...
...centre of Raleigh. Started eight months ago by six-foot, 240-pound Ren Hoek as part of the recreational activities of which he was director, the show began with a kazoo player, a piano pounder, a drummer. Inmates took part on the program only as a reward for good behavior the preceding week, soon made it the "shortest half hour of the week" for their 900 fellow prisoners...
Question 24 asked, "Which of the following standards of sex behavior do you practice?" and then listed a few suggestions. Question 25 was, "Would you wish your wife to be a virgin at marriage...
...research fellowship in neurology, to keep Dr. Tilney's memory green. The members of Tilney Memorial, Inc. have already appointed a committee to find a young man who may carry on Dr. Tilney's research on brain evolution, the relation between brain structure and human behavior...