Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year's coal strike differed from those of recent times in that the United Mine Workers never used their usual "no contract, no work" slogan. Instead, after the last contract expired on June 31, the miners inaugurated a three-day work week in an effort to strengthen their bargaining position. Their aim was to cut down existing coal stocks without the odium or financial stress of going out on strike...
...Never Mind Your Manners. Almost as extreme as his bitterness against the Freudians is Salter's veneration of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, the physiologist who coined the term "conditioned reflex." (Pavlov's classic example: a dog which has heard a bell ring whenever it was fed will eventually drool whenever it hears the bell, even though no food is offered.) The behaviorist school is founded on what Salter calls "the firm scientific bedrock of Pavlov." Its main tenet: man is a creature of habit; he can be "conditioned" to the habit of not even hearing a pistol fired next...
Medium height (5 ft. 10½ in.) and rangy, Henry is a 34-year-old copy of his father -bristling eyebrows and all. He also has some of his father's food fads (he eats 1,300 eggs a year), doesn't smoke or drink "Never got around to trying"). But he has no interest in politics (he dodges questions about his father because "father gets castrated so often in print") and reads only books or magazines pertaining to his work...
...Ellen never comes to his call, and the rest of the castle staff, all of whom are English except Paddy, the silent peacock-keeper, are mostly too preoccupied to comfort the dying man. For World War II has started and these English men & women are nervous exiles in a neutral but silently hostile land, half relieved, half ashamed when they think of what they are escaping...
Women have never before been accepted as students, although a woman--Sola Mentschikoff--has been a visiting professor for the last two years...