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Word: environmental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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It explains how various types and intensities of motivation may succeed or fail to sustain the flyer in his environment. This last point is the entire point of the article. The excerpts which you quoted might convey the impression to some, that all flyers are motivated by what might be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 27, 1946 | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

In The Real Jazz, Panassie tells us hot music is a finite thing which attained its unalterable shape at the time Buddy Bolden was assaulting the bayous with his battered cornet, and that any musician not conforming to the recognized shape is most certainly "not in the idiom" and most...

Author: By E. E. Nimon, | Title: Jazz | 5/21/1946 | See Source »

Never rising above its environment, the Fred Rath and Lee Sands farce is about a couple of Coney Island tin-horns, Benny Baker and Sid Melton, who whitewash an elephant and pass him off, in the disapproved carnival style, as a sacred and genu-wine Indian white pachyderm. Things get...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 4/25/1946 | See Source »

San Franciscans turned their attention to a lengthy municipal psychiatric report on the question: "What makes women promiscuous?" Some reasons, based on interviews with 365 girls over a period of 17 months: loneliness, boredom, curiosity, spite, emotional dependence, a desire to conquer, maladaptation, poor environment, broken homes, the desire to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: For Love or Nothing | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

The plant can be jarred out of its bourgeois rut: 1) by a special sort of grafting, 2) by modifying the external environment at the proper stage of the plant's development, or 3) by crossing sharply differing varieties. If done properly, the plant's heredity is "disestablished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: How to Liquidate Heredity | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

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