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...nonliving matter together. He pointed out that a chief characteristic of liquid crystals* is the so-called "straight-stretch" type of molecule which composes it. Protein molecules of sperm cells are also of the "straight stretch" type. In addition to this structural likeness, there is a likeness of optical behavior. Like crystals, sperm cells break in two the light which passes through them, bending each ray so that two points of light emerge where one entered. This property is noted in living cells and in preserved specimens...
With Dr. Fulton and Dr. Eugen Kahn of Munich, Professor of Psychiatry and Mental Hygiene at Yale, Dr. Dusser de Barenne is the third major appointment recently made at Yale in the sciences underlying the study of individual behavior...
Never long withdrawn from public attention are the names of William Carl Grunow and Bertram James Grigsby. Year after year, the behavior of the common stock of their Grigsby-Grunow (Majestic) radio manufacturing company has been the sensation of the Chicago Exchange. For this reason, and because the radio industry is a potential and actual sufferer in time of depression, general interest was attached last week to these items of Grigsby-Grunow news...
Everett Dean Martin, 50, tall, loose-jointed, has poppy, kindly eyes, a mouth like Irvin Cobb's. He became associated with the People's Institute in 1916, was made Director in 1922. Other books: The Behavior of Crowds, Psychology, The Meaning of a Liberal Education, The Mystery of Religion...
...likes to lick her kittens, but her behavior to them is not in any way similar to her behavior in the presence of a tom. Yet I feel that Dr. Freud, watching her physical caresses of her offspring, would suspect her of incestuous longings. The Oedipus complex, where it occurs, is always caused by a wrong attitude, in the mother-an attitude mainly, of seeking from children a spurious imitation of satisfactions only fully derivable from sexual relations between adults...