Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning of September 21, 1928, as they filed before "the huge Gothic pile" to register as members of the Class of 1932. The eyes of Burke and Chatham looked severely down upon them, the jealous gargoyles stared angrily at the Yard behind them, and the clangor of the bell seemed to make time itself revert to the 19th century as they enrolled...
...time these freshmen graduated, the eyes of Chatham and Burke guarded little more than a storeroom for University files, the gargoyles gazed upon a College that was almost unrecognizable as the Harvard of 1932, and the bell, tolling too slowly to keep up with the changes that had been made, had been stolen in disgust...
Pavlov's conditioned-reflex theory (a dog regularly fed at the ringing of a bell will eventually salivate at the mere sound, even though no food is offered) was only the beginning. In later work, which got little attention in the West, Pavlov sought to prove that dogs are of four temperamental types, "strong excitatory," "lively," "calm imperturbable, or phlegmatic," and "weak inhibitory."* Further, he developed an elaborate theory of both positive and negative conditioned responses, which appear in varying patterns when a dog is subjected to unendurable stress ("trans-marginally stimulated"). A dog usually breaks down...
Another major public financing got started last week. In St. Louis, Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.'s board voted to float $100 million in new debentures to help pay for its fiveyear, $1,125,000,000 expansion program. If stockholders and the Securities and Exchange Commission approve, the issue will...
...Bell Tolls. In Milwaukee, police, recording Carl W. Iverson's complaint that he was robbed in an alley of $4.85 and a pack of cigarettes, checked their records, found he owed them $58.37 more for being six months delinquent on a traffic fine...