Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Richards said that campaigns to "scars people into world government" will not work, and that only rational programs resting on information and communication can succeed.
On the whole the President's report is a calm, rational, long-range approach to the University and its manifold problems. And that is all that it should be; that is what good leadership should always be doing in times of stress which may induce short-sightedness in the less...
A cebus monkey in the San Diego zoo, says Beach, showed rational business aptitude by offering sticks or pebbles to visitors who were rich in peanuts or candy. The enterprise of this monkey named "Trader" was so successful that he nearly died of overeating. At last he was removed to...
"At length, by no outward control or rational cause, but only because destruction itself sickens, the violence quieted, for the time being, at least."
"This is also manifest in the domain of sex education, where our negativism is notorious. We start early to speak obscurely of sexual prohibitions but impart very little legitimate positive information to the child. We ignore the fact that, unlike brute animals whose sex behavior is largely instinctual, the rational...