Word: instinctiveness
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...announcing. "My wife is hysterical. I'm going crazy. I'm sick of this science business. I had it out with Kegel before the conference, and told him nobody is going to take away my baby. My wife knows it's our baby and I guess a mother's instinct is as good as the experts, who contradict themselves. . , . That Kegel, making us pose for the movies and talkies and news reels! I'm sick...
...people have ever studied a tornado, fewer still its nautical equivalent, a waterspout. First instinct of those who have seen this terrifying natural phenomenon, which links heaven and earth with a dark, serpentine Jacob's ladder, is to get out of its path...
...public has a right instinct to judge lightly the bookseller who occasionally sells a book which oversteps the legal line of obscenity. It condemns the professional who publishes a book simply because it stands on the border line of decency, and exploits every possible titillation of his product. But the companies which subterraneously produce smut and near-smut, as a regular business, stand on a very different footing from the reputable bookseller who incidentally procures for a client a copy of a book for which he asks. It was because of this evident difference that Assemblyman Langdon Post last year...
Cornell University graduated Floyd Leslie Carlisle in 1903, expected him to make his mark in the legal profession. For some years Mr. Carlisle did practice law in Watertown, N. Y., but soon the merger instinct arose within him and he organized Northern New York Trust Co. from a consolidation of two upstate banks. In 1916 he headed the group which bought control of St. Regis Paper Co., became St. Regis president?an office which he still retains?and made the company one of the largest paper producers in the East. In 1920 Mr. Carlisle & syndicate bought Northern New York Utilities...
...rawest book I have ever seen. It is like a burnt over forest of scrub pine. There is not one bit of human warmth in its two hundred fifty odd pages, just the lowest form of men and women crawling over bleak rock with one cut throat instinct "to persist". To say the book is depressing is to say nothing. "Bottom Dogs" is a social document of man neither civilized nor un-civilized...