Word: behaviorisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...book: Mr. Tompkins Explores the Atom (Macmillan; $2). Its author: famed, Russian-born Physicist George Gamow, of George Washington University. In a whimsical explanation of the behavior of atoms, Dr. Gamow discusses the mathematical odds against just such an occurrence as was reported in the Wild Plum School...
Despite charges of immoral behavior among U.S. soldiers in New Caledonia made by one French official (TIME, Jan. 3), observers have seen little actual evidence of it. Army officials, anxious to avoid any incident with the island's French, moved fast in the case of the Negroes. One soldier was never identified. But the other two, Edward R. Loury and Frank Fisher Jr., were quickly court-martialed and sent to prison for life...
Dark Past. That was the story. At week's end no one had given any reason for 31-year-old Swancutt's violent behavior except, unofficially, that he was a man who could not handle beer, that he was in love with Dorothy Douglas...
...Once trained, he coaxed a strictly temporary training assignment. He was good. A month later he was taken on as waist gunner by 23-year-old Major J. B. Epting. On their first combat mission, over Bizerte in Tunisia, the tail gunner was wounded and Ben moved aft. Steady behavior and crack gunnery in combat had done the job. He belonged...
Bald, grey-fringed, vigorous Dr. Cattell was a pacifist whose opponents always knew they had been in a fight. In 1917, after Columbia University's Nicholas ("Miraculous") Murray Butler had solemnly warned his facultymen against "seditious" behavior, Cattell promptly wrote Congress urging it not to send unwilling draftees to Europe. Butler fired him. Cattell fought back so fiercely that his house in Garrison-on-Hudson was nicknamed Fort Defiance. Cattell's good friend, Historian Charles Beard, quit the University. Cattell sued Columbia for $125,000, finally forced it to settle...