Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Certainly man is motivated by fear of hunger and desire for gain-by the stick and the carrot if you will. But the oversimplification and the error is the assumption that these are the necessary motives to human social action as they may be for donkey biological action...
...this connection-in that perhaps his strongest motivation is desire for prestige, status, the approval of his group? Is the businessman who gives up a $50,000 a year job to become a college president at $15,000 motivated primarily by fear of hunger or desire for material gain? . . . Are college professors motivated by the carrot? The truth is more nearly that they labor for ego-satisfaction in spite of a paucity of carrots in their chosen academic course. . . . Whatever is the case for the donkey", the incentive for human behavior need not be material gain...
Barrett and his men got up typical admen's charts which graphically analyzed the bitter truth. In the last 14 years of Los Angeles County's tremendous (47%) growth, the Republicans had managed to win only 4% of the new voters. In the last two years the gain was a microscopic one-fifth of 1%. The county GOP had only four permanent employes-"not as many as it takes to run a good neighborhood grocery." Even the Communist Party had more permanent office space...
Prostigmine & Education. The aim of spastic therapy, Dr. Kabat explains, is to gain "voluntary control of muscles through a part of the brain which hasn't been injured." This is a difficult, slow process, because "it is trying to make the uninjured part of the brain learn to do something it wasn't planned to do." Prostigmine makes it easier by: 1) increasing the amount of acetylcholine, a body chemical which stimulates nervous and mental activity; 2) relaxing and strengthening the muscles...
...Hemingway novel would gain admittance to the Widener Library stacks only if it were about the University or Cambridge, or presented as a gift "We," said Keyes De Witt Metcalf, University librarian, in an interview yesterday, "are not interested in buying new fiction, except novels that deal with Harvard. Cambridge, or Boston--novels that would be different if they dealt with other cities...