Word: rather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Psychologists tell us that war, depression, crime, labor troubles, and race prejudice have their roots in mental processes. But they have been loath to apply their convictions to the correction of social error. Rather they have chosen to measure intelligence, the speed with which rats learn how to thread a maze in order to reach food and the like...
Great Britain and France won War II's biggest victory last week, but the scene of success was neither at the front nor on the sea nor in the air, but rather in quiet, faraway Ankara, capital of Turkey, 1,600 miles from the guns of the Western Front. There, 25 years almost to the day after Sultanate Turkey had entered World War I on the side of Germany and Austria-Hungary, a new Turkey, now republican in form, signed a treaty with Britain and France which made the onetime enemies allies-on condition...
...once it was not emphasized that many prominent British males, including most of the King's brothers, are expert fancy knitters, samples of whose work are exhibited in Britain occasionally in peacetime. The London Daily Telegraph & Morning Post, close to Downing Street, emphasized rather the feminine side...
...when they have not been caught stupidly lying-as when they insisted the Ark Royal had been sunk, even though a U. S. naval attache lunched aboard her and found differently-they have artlessly suppressed information which would on the whole have done their cause good rather than harm. Last week Germany had yet to admit the loss of even one submarine in seven weeks' warfare...
...Goes to Washington under the auspices of the Capital's National Press Club. On hand were most of the U. S. Senate, about half of the House, three members of the Cabinet and most of Washington's 509 correspondents. They had heard about this story of a rather sappy young idealist, who in defeating a frame-up to oust him from the Senate, exposes one U. S. Senator as corrupt, others as unimaginative, hard-boiled professional officeholders...