Word: behaviorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dubbed "eccentric" by his fellow countrymen, a Briton must be eccentric indeed-almost out of his wits, in fact. One contemporary Briton who unquestionably deserved the title was the late Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank (1886-1926). Novelist Firbank was an esthete whose behavior was so "odd" that even such a case-hardened bird-watcher as Sir Osbert Sitwell is moved to confess in an introduction that Friend Firbank must have felt a bit "hedged off" in a private world that was noticeably "different from that of others...
Bruner said that he had discovered this tie in and the Nambikuari during a recent study of Boston political behavior. Many citizens told him of the time that Curley could be counted on as a "soft touch for a loan," particularly during family emergencies...
Explaining the decision of the seven-member Board, Dean Bender said "there was "little difference between the actual behavior" of the arrested group and the group which simply lost its bursar's cards. "As a result, the same reasoning, the same policy, and the same regulations apply...
...first of his countrymen to win a Nobel Prize. The $30,000 prize in physics was awarded for the theory Yukawa had propounded 14 years ago. (The Nobel Prize in chemistry went to University of California Professor William F. Giauque -pronounced Gee-oke-for his studies in the behavior of matter at very low temperatures...
...long been trying to doctor herself. After she had a series of temperamental blowups on the set of Annie Get Your Gun, M-G-M suspended her and tackled the expensive job of starting all over again with a new star, Betty Hutton. Judy apologized for her behavior and then entered a Boston hospital for a rest cure. Among other things, she needed to put on some weight...