Word: explicitly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Second, the teachers, even under the best conditions, fail to give the student an immediate knowledge of his accomplishment. "It can easily be demonstrated," Skiner explained in psychychological jargon, "that, unless explicit mediating behavior has been set up, the lapse of only a few seconds between response and reinforcement destroys most of the effect...
...though Maria Schell, as the daughter, is a lovely woman, it is hard to listen to the words she has been given. The "minor key" in which the movie is set seems more like a series of uneasy moments where the characters are made to make their own situations explicit...
Just how much faculty supervision this would involve was not made explicit, but the Interfraternity Conference met yesterday to discuss the entire Clark incident. Chances seem good that the Administration will confine its supervision to the area of fraternity hazing...
...Averell Harriman bagged a wild turkey, and to New Orleans, where Harriman found the political hunting not so good. It covered the Florida peninsula, where Adlai Stevenson, fishing for votes, landed a sailfish and a pair of skin divers. It ended in Oklahoma City, where Democrats converged for the explicit purpose of skewering Republicans...
...Moscow, Nikita Khrushchev had been explicit. "Do not ask us for what we cannot give you," he had told West Germany's Konrad Adenauer. "We cannot give you unification, and we cannot do anything to help NATO." The Russians were vividly aware that, under any unification terms the West would accept, they would lose the part of Germany they now hold. "How could we explain to our people the presence of a defeated Communist government-in-exile in Moscow?" asked Khrushchev of his visitor...