Word: fears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adequate epperceptive basis for understanding what is taught, and adequate opportunity to apply, test, and fix it through participating experience." Hutchins is not needed to point out that giving the student what he wants can be carried too far. Dr. Prosser, with his deadly scientific bias, has a mortal fear of what he calls "preachment," which he lumps together with "untried theories and mere factual learning" as the evils of traditional education. One can hope that his sterile, moral, practical youth never becomes an overwhelming reality...
...Hall admits that the reasons for one person's specific fear of snakes, another's of high places, another's of germs may well be due to environmental conditioning. But he believes that such conditioning simply controls the direction of emotional response, that the basic amount of emotionality is inherited. The researches which have led him to this opinion have been conducted by him and his co-workers on rats...
...lighted circular enclosure about seven feet across, with a smooth linoleum floor. Since rats like nooks, crannies and darkness they found this "open field" mildly terrifying. They showed emotion by excreting. That excretion is a valid evidence of emotion is affirmed by the experiences of countless soldiers suffering extreme fear in battle, of some aviators just about to crash, by the observation of dog-owners who see their pets stop more frequently at lampposts when excited, even by the testimony of psychiatrists that in a few unfortunate people the rousing of amorous passion is accompanied by overpowering excretory stimuli...
Since the Crisis last September, this simple prayer has arisen daily at high noon throughout Britain, on the lips or in the hearts of countless Christians. In Britain, which has been perhaps more hag-ridden by fear of war than any other nation, the spread of this prayer unites Anglicans and Nonconformists as they have not been united in centuries. The sponsor of the 27-word petition is the League of Prayer and Service, which thereby has become England's biggest religious organization: no less than 2,500,000 people have enrolled for its prayer cards...
...more logical explanation of the market break was just coming over the ticker -the hasty, fear-begotten British and French military alliance with Poland. Next morning, however, newspapers gave the Angas rumor part credit for dropping prices to within a hair of the January lows. New York Attorney General Bennett subpoenaed Boom Angas for a hearing. The florid Major blandly denied having sent any general wires since March 25. He said he had only a "diminutive influence" on the market...