Word: personent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...Institute last week a dummy named Oscar was catapulted headfirst against an automobile windshield. The pane cracked and some crumbs of glass fell outside the car. But when Oscar's head hit it, the pane bulged outward two or three inches. If the dummy had been a real person involved in a motor crash, this elastic yield of the glass might have saved him a skull fracture...
When Dr. Fishbein took the stand he boldly repeated to an eager audience of former Brinkley patients and local high-school students that Brinkley was a "quack." He defined the word as "a person who makes extravagant or blatant claims as to his own ability in the field of science or medicine," pointed out that Brinkley had never submitted a description of his rejuvenating operations or drugs to a recognized scientific publication, declared that A. M. A. chemists had found Brinkley's prize rejuvenation medicine to consist of water, a dye (methylene blue) and a little hydrochloric acid, none...
...have the pleasure of replying to the letter from a person named Schwab in the March 20 issue? Perhaps he is justified in his objection to Washington being typed "provincial." My only reaction as a onetime visitor was: "disappointing." His letter proves that all bigots do not live in small towns...
...Hayden investigated them carefully, sometimes in person. Once he made a surprise visit, incognito, to a camp, asked the director what he wanted most. When the director said he wanted a gasoline water pump, Mr. Hayden promptly made his wish come true by fishing out $75 in cash. Recently, he walked into the lavatory of the Burroughs Newsboy Home in Boston, emerged to announce that he would give the institution money for shower baths and new toilets...