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...such, it was a major contribution to American recovery; while trade revived with the passing of depression, our trade with the sixteen agreement countries from 1933 to 1937 rose 43 per cent while increasing only 11 per cent with non-agreement states. Our nation enjoyed the economic efficiencies and stimuli made possible a freer international trade...
...their search for solutions. Although medical and chemical research has proven that the blood of Negroes does not in the least differ from that of whites, the Red Cross continues to set it apart from "regular" blood. Although men in the Army, as human beings, react similarly to given stimuli, the War Department insists upon segregating Negroes from whites...
...intelligentsia. The havoc among the older generation of the educated classes has been frightful. . . . But it is the outlook for the future that is darkest. . . . The youth ... is being brought up to act mechanically, not to think; to shout, not to reflect; to respond like trained animals to definite stimuli. ... A revolution of moral nihilism has engulfed the continent...
...views on that subject are that the best education occupies a middle ground between old-fashioned education for discipline and the newfangled education for fun. In education he sees a mental and spiritual analogy of embryology: growth as a series of responses to proper stimuli. Habits arise from repeated responses to a stimulus, and the inculcation of socially useful habits is a major function of education. On the relation of Europe's present troubles to thinking habits, Dr. Conklin says...
...fear in battle, of some aviators just about to crash, by the observation of dog-owners who see their pets stop more frequently at lampposts when excited, even by the testimony of psychiatrists that in a few unfortunate people the rousing of amorous passion is accompanied by overpowering excretory stimuli...