Pugnacity

Quoted in Gudger, “The Alleged Pugnacity of the Swordfish and the Spearfishes as Shown by Their Attacks on Vessels,” Memoirs of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol 12, no. 2, 1940, p.

A Furnace Afloat JOE JACKSON 2003

Quoted in Gudger, “The Alleged Pugnacity of the Swordfish,” p.

A Furnace Afloat JOE JACKSON 2003

Gudger, “The Alleged Pugnacity of the Swordfish,” p.

A Furnace Afloat JOE JACKSON 2003

Pugnacity was not in Chamberlain's nature; he could no more spit in Hitler's eye than fail to rise when a lady entered the room.

Conspiring Against Hitler Astor, David 1997

Pugnacity and determination were revealed in the short thick-set figure of John Adams; the round bald head, the firm mouth, the set eyes of the

The Nation in a Nutshell George Makepeace Towle

_ Chap. xi, "The Instinct of Pugnacity," pp. 279-95; "The Instinct of Pugnacity and the Emotion of Anger," pp. 49-61. 4th rev.ed. Boston, 1912.

Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

Pugnacity was aroused, but it might have an evil effect as well as a good, so far as the management had any control.

The Psychology of Management The Function of the Mind in Determining, Teaching and Installing Methods of Least Waste Lillian Moller Gilbreth 1925

-- Pugnacity can never be entirely absent where there is emulation.

The Psychology of Management The Function of the Mind in Determining, Teaching and Installing Methods of Least Waste Lillian Moller Gilbreth 1925

It is significant that Dr. McDougall, one of the few modern psychologists who has written on the social psychology of war, refers to Bagehot's "brilliant essay" (McDougall, Social Psychology, p. 283, on the Instinct of Pugnacity); while Professor J. Shield Nicholson writing during the war (Economic Journal, Dec. 1914, p. 548) refers in unqualified terms to Bagehot's "perennial freshness."

Militarism versus Feminism: An Enquiry and a Policy Demonstrating that Militarism involves the Subjection of Women Charles Kay 1915

Other undesirable instincts: Selfishness -- Pugnacity, or the fighting impulse.

The Mind and Its Education George Herbert Betts 1901