Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arnold Lucius Gesell of Yale's famed Clinic of Child Development, writing in Scientific Monthly for December, gave Darwin credit for these experiments, because, in trying to bolster up his theory of man's lowly origin, Darwin gave a tremendous push to the infant science of infant behavior. Still a source book for child psychologists is Darwin's A Biographic Sketch of an Infant, published...
...social sciences are sociology, economics and political science; part of psychology (attitudes, traits, abilities, collective behavior) and cultural (as distinguished from physical) anthropology. They overflow the bounds of science into law, history, education, linguistics. *Writing on the racetrack information racket last week, Scripps-Howard Columnist Westbrook Pegler observed: "Chicago has been so rotten for years that the town may seem to be abandoned and utterly without any will to turn square, but, for the first time in the modern history of the city, there are some stirrings of conscience and civic decency...
...Michael Murray and Dr. Alfred Kranes, who attended the wedding, brought the couple back to Stillman immediately after the ceremony, with the promise that after 24 hours of good behavior on the part of the frustrated bridegroom, he might at last regain his liberty. So the newly-weds celebrated the ceremony in a most conservative manner in the rather disheartening atmosphere of the Infirmary...
Believing that a look at the past is worth two at the present, the pacifist Christian Century (nonsectarian weekly) last week began printing a condensation of the best available study of parsons' wartime behavior - Preachers Present Arms, by Sociologist Ray Hamilton Abrams (Round Table Press). When he wrote his book six years ago, Sociologist Abrams was skeptical of clerical calm-downs between wars, pointed out that western civilization possesses "perhaps the greatest war book known to man"-the Bible...
...circumscribing the area in which he could be positive, saying once: "In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity." His difficulties as they are unfolded in detail seem unbearable, his performance a manual of political behavior for men in any time. Two out of hundreds of instances...