Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desperate and ready to do anything by cutting off the supply. An ex-spy of higher type believed working now for Berlin is Norman Baillie-Stewart, Seaforth Highlander lieutenant who was convicted in 1933 of selling military secrets and imprisoned in the Tower of London until 1937, when good behavior ended his five-year sentence and he exiled himself from Great Britain. The London Evening News stated positively last month that Baillie-Stewart was broadcasting propaganda in English from a German station...
...sometimes used for laboratory work on diet, diabetes and drugs. But none of the cats in the college comes from Alexander's alleys. All cats are bought from laboratory animal houses which supply with each purchase a family history and a listing of the animal's age, behavior, eating habits. Alexander, continued Dr. Slanetz, undersold his competitors, for high-class cat prices range from $1.25 to $1.50, depending on size...
...their mothers' and fathers' worries. Children, she believes, always sense such worries, feel insecure themselves. When a mother worries because her children disobey, sulk or fight, Mrs. Baruch brings her to school, lets her observe other children and find out that disobedience, sulking, fighting are normal childish behavior. Result: The mother goes home feeling more tolerant toward herself and children, more serene...
...solve a baffling problem: how to get Junior to drink his orange juice (or eat his spinach). It took Mrs. Waring 15 years to develop her formula. In the college's laboratory nursery school, she one day decided to take sound movies (unobserved) of her tots' behavior. She found the movies illuminating. Eventually she made a reel showing the right and the wrong way to approach her central problem-orange juice. First scene, picturing a young mother's desperate attempt, ends with her youngster screaming, the orange juice untouched. Second scene shows a teacher whose timing...
...Ignore undesirable behavior. (Junior pointed to pictures on the wall...