Word: shallow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experiences may tend to fixate infantile behavior. ... If the seducer is a parent, the child becomes doubly preoccupied with problems of family relationship. There is surprisingly little feeling of guilt and anxiety in these children. . . . Where the experience is repeated the children (at least girls) acquire a peculiar shallow callous attitude with an underlying softness appropriate to childhood. They tend to dissociate the experience from any concept of child-bearing or family life. While they obtain satisfaction from the experience, they learn only incidentally that it is wrong. They are rarely a menace to other children and can often...
...right. In arriving at the crossroad, canny Frenchmen saw the issue as it really was and made a sharp left turn. If European history for the last few years can give any lessons, Gallic logic has scored a substantial victory, and one of infinite more promise than the shallow opera being played out on the Ethiopean plains...
...years since oil was first found oozing from the ground around masses of asphalt in the Maracaibo Basin, more than 1,000,000,000 barrels of crude petroleum have crossed the shallow bar that joins Lake Maracaibo to the Gulf of Venezuela. For a few years Venezuela ranked second to the U. S. in oil production, though since 1931 Russia has crowded it into third place. In neighboring Colombia, where the oil oozed just as freely, only Standard Oil of New Jersey has so far made the tremendous investment necessary to get South American oil to market. Colombian oil fields...
...accompanying piece on the Fenway bill, "F Man", is a pleasingly light tale of the "yokel boy makes good" variety, which managed to evoke even a few belly-laughs. It is shallow and frothy, and knows it. An "F man", incidentally, is the next thing...
...that have gone into the making of Queen Mary, astronomy was added last week. Astronomers and meteorologists agreed that one of the highest spring tides could be expected at about 2 p. m. to float the great Cunard White Star liner from John Brown's shipyard down the shallow Clyde...