Word: reflexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...example, last year at the end of the Yale race at New London an oarsman suddenly slumped over in his seat. He was operating under an old psychological reflex which required that after he had rowed a certain definite time he should stop and rest...
Unfortunately there was a strong ad- verse tide that day which lengthened the race by two minutes. When the oarsman had rowed for the usual length of time, his old reflex went into effect and he stopped--despite the fact that there were still two minutes...
...Russian physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, discoverer of the conditioned reflex, so trained his dog that he had only to ring a bell to make its mouth water. The governments of Europe hope to make their citizens' flight to safety just as automatic when the air-raid sirens wail...
Pragmatic economists have pointed out that Fascism is a reflex of the lean and bony ridges and sandy or sparse soil of Central Europe. Socialists insist that Fascism is not inevitable anywhere, and that a different system of property, political and consequent international relations would result in plenty for the German people even though their soil and raw materials are poor. But whatever the truth of the Socialist argument, it is axiomatic that a nation's total well-being under any economic system is limited by two things: the nature of the land and what is under the land...
...Department; and reflect what we conceive to be Professor Usher's capacity for original, careful, and profound analysis. His topic method of treatment has been a useful too in a vast field which responds badly to the integrated treatment we have suffered under elsewhere. As for the reflex of economic forces upon social events, Professor Usher has emphasized them repeatedly as he passed from topic to topic; and at the beginning of the year expressed his extent of agreement and disagreement with the specific theory of the economic determination of history. We remember with appreciation his humane and genuine interest...