Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...demanded and obtained as a minimum sop to its prestige, the resignation of Sarwat and his cabinet. Prognostications were that Nahass Pasha would again attempt to force the creation of a Wafd cabinet, and might possibly be permitted to succeed if he would convey a secret pledge of "good behavior" to Baron Lloyd...
Cynical expressions of the ironic variations of human behavior are surely less sound than statistics derived from oft-demonstrated laws of genetics. Missionaries must have good health, energy, moral fervor, the spirit of adventure; hence their sons are likely to have the same. College professors must be morally and intellectually sound; their sons are likely to be so. A minister's calling brings him, Dr. Huntington pointed out, into contact with high-grade women, one of whom he is likely to marry. Said Dr. Huntington: "I may be prejudiced, but I am inclined to think that ministers get better...
...could not be Captain Leslie because she loves him and because he is too surly and obviously criminal in his behavior...
...Campbell, professor of Psychiatry and director of the Massachusetts Psychopathic Hospital, discussed crime from the viewpoint of medical psychology. According to Dr. Campbell the field of the medical man is limited to understanding such phenomena and abnormalities of life as are not infrequent among criminals, studying behavior and mental conditions preceding crime, as much as it is possible for medical science to determine should be the share of the physchiatrist." Dr. Campbell asserted...
...necessity, value, and proper behavior of proctors there is no one better qualified to speak than the student who has just taken an examination, and done rather poorly. Those thoughtful gentlemen who wander about the fringes of the multitude, banding out extra paper and maintaining an attitude of strict neutrality, mean nothing to the student whose eager hand can hardly wait to disclose a mind packed with information. It is only to the unfortunate who sees the lower gulfs yawning before him, and averts his eye in dismay, that external matters are of concern...