Word: musts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question has often been raised whether the social sciences are sciences at all. Certainly they occupy a place on the fringe of the physical and biological sciences, from which they must draw much of their nourishment. "Sociology," a term coined about a century ago by the French Philosopher Auguste Comte, has been described as "the science of leftovers"-that is, a science which picks up crumbs spilled from the groaning table of the other social sciences.* But it has also been suggested that sociology be enthroned as the basic social science-a sort of central switchboard which would coordinate...
...their effort to break away from the hands of the assassin. If it were right to kill chickens there would be no expression of fear on the part of the chicken." To show up meat eating, he told of how he utterly confounded a woman who argued that one must eat meat to gain strength. Snapped Dr. Pease: "I never before knew why the measly elephant is so weak...
...Martin Block decided that there must be better rackets than tearing off Mr. Young's calendar. He found he had a purling, pitchman-style voice that made people buy things. He bought an old Buick, installed a phonograph, a microphone and loudspeaker, parked it under the windows of a chocolate yeast company's directors' meeting, let go with The Stars and Stripes Forever and a blaring, vitaminy commercial. At the music, directorial paunches creased over the window sills. At the commercial, three directors rushed downstairs, hired Martin and his noisemaker at $450 a week to plug chocolate...
...knees and neck, could not sleep. Dr. Rathbone found that the patient was 30, unmarried, that her fiance had lost his job, that she had been financially ruined by the Depression, that she had recently broken a leg. Dr. Rathbone's (and her patient's) conclusion: "Must overcome tenseness to regain health...
...examined by a doctor. Then she massages and applies hot pads to their tensest muscles. Because relaxing is largely psychological, Dr. Rathbone puts her pupils through a course in learning how to control their muscles, cultivating the will to relax. When they go to bed, she advises them, they must repeat to themselves: "I will not permit the tensions that have beset me during the day to return...