Word: cards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pinehurst young William Burke of Naugatuck, Conn., who used to boss caddies around at the Clearwater Country Club, Clearwater, Fla., took two threes and four fours in a row on the last nine holes, turned in a card of 291 that won the North-South Open, beating by five strokes the card of Tommy Armour, National Open Champion, and by six the card of John Farrell...
...blanks for these concentration fields, and the study card programs for next year have been sent out to the Freshman class. Students should see their Faculty advisers and representatives of the various departments open to concentration before filling in these blanks. They must be in to University Hall by April...
...manner. Author Wylie is, it is true, writing again a history of the old battle waged by their alien companions upon those who are ill at ease in the world, sensitive, frightened and aloof. But what ever Author Wylie says, she says with flowers ; and often, the narrow white card, when it is finally discovered in the scented and elaborate bouquet of metaphors, has nothing written...
...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...