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Conditional Reflex. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Antoinette B. Grant, 29, got a divorce after testifying that her husband, Psychiatrist Henry J. Grant, 43, continually compared her to his worst patients...
...advantages are gained: 1) the strength of antibodies is raised more quickly and to a much higher level (higher, often, than would follow a natural infection with polio), and 2) the immunity lasts longer because the system's antibody-manufacturing plant develops an "immunologic memory" or conditioned reflex. It Will Get Better. So far, Dr. Salk does not know whether this degree of immunity will last for a lifetime or only a few years. He can go back only 2½ years in pointing to test subjects who have enjoyed vaccine-conferred immunity. So it may be that...
...Conditioned Reflex. In Delaware, Ohio, after five inmates escaped from the Girls' Industrial School, Superintendent Mrs. Evelyn Ethell reluctantly explained that they had been left unguarded so that a visiting psychologist might study them unhampered...
...Prayer-Ism: The shocking heresy that, in moments of acute stress and danger, one wee prayer is permissible. This may be attributed, later, to behaviouristic reflex responses...
...instant Ted comes boulevarding into view, through a window, the moviegoer has a sudden reflex to check his wallet. Hair plastered down, three days' growth of beard, sour-looking tropic-whites, smile like an overpolished apple and nasty little eye like a worm in it: Newton is the picture of a man who has made a gin fizzle of his life, and figures to cadge a chaser...