Word: caged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carpenter Hall, newest acquisition of wartime Harvard, is now being occupied by 600 men of the Naval Supply Corps. Construction of the red-trimmed, gray classroom building, shadowing Briggs Cage in Soldiers Field, was started late in April and was completed six weeks later in record time to fulfill the present schedule of graduating 300 men every ten weeks...
...hoardings from Omsk to Acapulco. Advance ticket sales might well defray much of the cost of the war. Asked by WQXR's Commentator Estelle Sternberger what the world should do with Hitler if he were captured alive, no less than 45 responses recommended an international tour in a cage...
...Crazy. Working on a grant from the Otho Sprague Institute, Dr. Masserman rigged up an automatic feeding apparatus which dropped some food into the feedbox of a glass cage every time a light flashed on. He then trained cats, one at a time, to lift the lid of the feedbox whenever the light flashed. After the cats were conditioned to associate light with food, he shot a harmless blast of air into the cage at the moment the cat reached for the lid. This gale at mealtime frightened the cats. After repeated frustrations the animals associated the feedbox and signal...
...Sane. Dr. Masserman left the animals to their phobias and conflicts for several months, then set out to cure them by psychiatric sessions in the experimental cage. One group he treated by "reassurance and suggestion." The cats were gently carried to the feedbox, stroked and fondled, petted and coaxed to eat. At first, when the doctor stopped stroking, the cats stopped feeding. But gradually they lost their fears...
Fortnight ago, with Gargantua still glowering in his glittering cage, the circus moved on. Two days later, Kroener died. Said Mrs. Lintz: "If Dick had lived I believe the gorilla would have eventually killed...