Word: behaviorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...method of splinting and immobilizing paralyzed limbs only aggravated these disorders. The peculiar advantage of Sister Kenny's method lies in her hot packs, which relieve spasm, her gentle, natural exercises, which work muscles back into normal coordination before dangerous new behavior patterns...
...amateur observer: "Once you've watched a variable star in action, you're never the same again. It's like having your finger on the pulse of the universe." Variable stars (which include the Pole Star) pulsate, and nobody knows why or how, except that their behavior probably involves enormous transformations of matter into energy...
...Husbands Necessary? (Paramount) may serve to record on celluloid a pattern of U.S. social behavior once considered cute: the late, unlamented antics of the country-club set. But as an attempt at scatterbrained domestic frivolity, it falls flat on its farce...
...bomb explodes, the stream from the hose will force the molten fragments away from him. Says OCD at last: "Exaggerated conception of the 'terrors' of the bomb has instilled unjustified fear." Previous misunderstanding of incendiaries derives from early experiments by British scientists, who studied the laboratory behavior of pure magnesium, which burns fiercely in water. The British concluded that magnesium incendiary bombs would behave the same way. But the metal in real bombs is only 80% magnesium. The rest is an alloy to make them tough enough to penetrate roofs. The alloyed magnesium burns much less intensely than...
...stations which broadcast in foreign languages (in the first 30 days after Pearl Harbor they put on 6,776 hours of programs in 29 tongues from Rumanian to Meshkwaki*), have finally been brought under one code of wartime behavior...