Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cinema showed dogs which dripped saliva at the sound of a bell, monkeys which marathoned to the food box at the sight of a red card, children who opened hungry mouths when their wrists were pressed. These are examples of conditioned reflexes and upon this conditioning is based the difference between the lower and the higher animals, including...
...Lady, wise ape, was presented repeatedly and alternately with a red card, and with a blue card. With the red card came, always, food in a food box. With the blue card came the food box but no food. After a while, the food box was removed to a distant corner. Red and blue cards kept flashing before Old Lady's eyes. When the blue card flashed, Old Lady gazed at it in polite boredom and went on quietly with her toilet. They couldn't fool her. But when the blue card disappeared and the red card showed...
...Tuesday an additional poll will be open in the Law School and a ballot-box will be available all day in Sever Hall. The other polls will be run as on Monday...
...public career of Heinrich Langkopf began in Berlin last week, when, with a stout tin box under his arm, he called at the office of Privy Councilor Hugo Bach. Arriving early, he was kept waiting until a few minutes after noon. Ushered in at last by a page who discreetly retired, he approached the desk of Privy Councilor Bach, placed the tin box upon it, and spoke crisply: "I have here 15 pounds of high explosives. Unless you are willing to give me 112,000 marks, in cash, for reasons which I shall explain, this building will be blown...
...anathematized as the home of all that is corrupt, where vice abounds unchecked by conniving officialdom and the people are at the mercies of bombs and poisonous liquors. So the churchmen gather to pray that the growing pains of the turbulent city may be abated and that the ballot box may no longer yield a forced crop of magistrates. But yesterday's declaration of faith seems hardly the means by which to procure the metamorphosis at a time when gangsters scoff at the impotence of the righteous and a strong, materialistic hand is needed, rather than an aesthetic gesture...