Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, however, came a reminder of the fact that the circus business is an industry, subject to profits and losses, to fat seasons and lean, and subject also to mergers, combinations, monopolization. It was the monopolistic aspect of the circus which last week attracted attention. For, through buying out American Circus Corp., John Ringling, large, two-chinned proprietor of Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Combined Circus became owner of every U. S. circus of any considerable size. American Circus Corp. was the management company for Sells-Floto, John Robinson, Hagenbeck-Wallace, Sparks and Al G. Barnes circuses. In absorbing American...
Behaviorism believes that "behaviour of man from infancy to death is the subject-matter of [human] psychology." Behaviorism's chief exponent, John Broadus Watson, says: "Thinking is merely talking . . . with concealed musculature...
...priest always rushes in and demands to be accepted as an authority on the subject. . . . The Pope represents the priests in this matter. The Pope is the chief priest of Europe and speaks very strongly on the subjects of sex appeal. I, of course, should never dream of appealing to the chief priest of Europe...
...quizzes or the order in which the governments of the various countries are considered. Rather it is the type of reading assigned and whether it is intended to teach the student just how governments are conducted or to arouse a serious and individual interest in the more essentially cultural subject of historical political theory in its broader aspects...
...circle in medicine or law. The fields have become too large. If he attempts too much, he scatters his energies. If he concentrates too much, he becomes a specialist with narrow horizon or a cog in complicated machinery. Better the ability given by the old training, to master any subject, than a restricted knowledge of a single field...