Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third threat to British rubber supremacy looms in the Negro republic of Liberia, West Africa, where the plantations of Big White Rubberman Harvey Firestone are now in process of producing (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926). Meanwhile, what is being done by Great Britain to defend her grip on rubber...
...will pull his hand away from a hot plate. These are examples of unconditioned reflexes, fully developed in infancy. They constitute the equipment with which the animal faces life, according to the behaviorists.* By modifying the conditions, the simple reflexes may be changed, becoming more complicated, or conditioned. The process of changing an unconditioned reflex into a conditioned reflex was clearly demonstrated to an audience of psychiatrists at the Academy of Medicine last week, in a cinema entitled "The Mechanics of the Brain...
...made millions of dollars in some mysterious process as a mining engineer in Siberia or South Africa or some other vague place...
...tones of color and graceful designs of robes. Scouts at other universities, larger and handsomer platforms, overemphasis, with squads of ambitious candidates going through their paces in every room in Sever, and English A sections changed to more debating practise: a gloomy outlook, but the unavoidable result unless the process thus initiated is checked. In the interests of already overworked sporting editors, the coaches should reconsider their decision, and call a halt before it is too late...
...opposed to both phases of the enlargement of Federal authority: the process by which the Federal Government bestows friendly gifts upon the States, no less than the process by which it deprives them of powers they once exercised. The growth of the system of Federal subsidies to the States in the matter of good roads, agricultural stations, and vocational education he regards as vicious. However pleasant it may be for the States to receive something for nothing, "the whole tendency of the system is to destroy the principle of local self-government...