Word: behaviorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said the News: "We submit that . . . the gentlemen's agreement, voluntary censorship method of suppressing war news, is not going to work. The newspapers cannot go on in perpetual fear that they will be hounded and hazed for any violation of Secretary Knox's ideas of gentlemanly behavior. The episode testifies anew to the need for a straight-out censorship to the extent that we are in this...
...study in the wild of social behavior among man's closest relatives, the anthropoid apes, was released last week by Psychologist Clarence Raymond Carpenter of Pennsylvania State College. Overlooking such obvious candidates as the gorilla and orangutan, he chose to study the small (14 lb.), long-armed gibbon, which walks and runs on the ground "with greater ease than any other primate except man," whose head, like man's, "combines a fairly large brain part with a relatively small face." In the forests of northwest Siam (Thailand) toward the Burma Road, Psychologist Carpenter spent four months...
...stepped off a train last week at Atlanta, Ga. He was shackled to two Negro prisoners, escorted by G-Men. His destination: the U. S. Penitentiary at Atlanta. The Kansas-born Communist leader and onetime Presidential candidate was going to prison for passport fraud. Sentence: four years. By good behavior he could get out in three years, four months...
...Watson, et al.-held bimonthly discussions on "reconstructing" U. S. education, taught teachers a new jargon. In his book, Rugg proudly claims co-authorship of the phrase "child-centred school." Sample Rugg jawbreaker: "The American problem is to bring forth on this continent that civilization of economic abundance, democratic behavior and integrity of expression which is now potentially available." Aided by 16 researchers, Harold Rugg has turned out 20 social-study texts under the title of Man and His Changing Society, claims that they have been used by 5,000,000 youngsters. He had to stop writing the 21st...
...Cryptogamic-i.e., devious in sexual behavior. As late as 1875 many scientists argued that some fungi were of spontaneous generation. So tiny and evasive were the winter spores of the potato fungus that they were not identified until 1910. Further, reproduction among fungi was usually sexless, with a sexual union occurring perhaps only once in several generations...