Word: instinct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faithful boys go to the penitentiary, it won't be the first time the penitentiary has been sanctified by its inmates. But if they go, it would place such a blot on the fair name of this island that all the Pacific Ocean could not wash it away. . . . Every instinct that moves human beings is with us in this case. . . . Lieut. Massie is not a small man, except in size. There is no cowardice, no fear in him. . . . What's that other defendant's name? Oh, yes, Lord. It almost popped my mind. I don't think it's been...
...twin instinct has one important manifestation. Living and working together, they usually paint the same subject simultaneously. Any person who orders a de Hellebranth portrait has his choice of two canvases. He need pay for only one. As artists the sisters are evenly matched, for each sells about the same number of pictures...
...Squelched children are the cause of most psychological maladjustments. Ninety-eight per cent of American mothers so thoroughly suppress their children before the age of six that they are unfit for the strife that is a rule of the world. Their first instinct, that of hunger, is denied when they are punished for eating a cookie between meals; then their acquisition instinct is curbed when they are unable to understand that a diamond bracelet is more valuable than a rocking horse. When the sex instinct makes its appearance, it is unhealthily denied by the parent's explaining as my parents...
...playing Dartmouth, Harvard encountered a sextet with little to recommend it but a group of well-trained athletes versed in the arts of body-checking and taking out competitors by physical contact. Wood and Saltonstall, who have an instinct for avoiding any direct collisions, escaped but other members of the squad sustained an injury of some kind. In the second tilt, however, the Harvard players were set for the onslaught and were careful not to parade down the ice after the fashion of light rope walkers. Practically no injuries took place in the second game...
...right instructor can relate the disputes of 18th century Deists to essential questions of today. Most of the material in historical courses can be interpreted with some relevance to current problems. The instinct of the scholar, however, is toward examining artistic, economic, or philosophic ideas in their historical setting. Such treatment may foster accuracy of thought, but it risks neglecting the really important point, what the ideas mean today and what is their present validity...