Word: cats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...book folk that she is thinking of writing a book about the old buff brick house at No. 10 Downing Street, the most famed address in the Empire. She announced: "It will begin with its first occupant, a daughter of Charles II, and finish with the black cat. That black cat has appeared at every opportune moment in recent weeks...
...Third Avenue elevated on Manhattan's Bowery. Then they marched into a basement auditorium to see big-eared Dr. Edwin Sharp Burdell, former dean of humanities at M. I. T., installed as director of Cooper Union. Among platform spectators was Dr. Burdell's 14-pound striped cat, "Farmer...
...crew ran up distress signals* on main-truck and foremast, slung the Stars and Stripes upside-down from the shrouds. Captain Milton dived into the flooded cabin, brought up a case of whiskey, some canned salmon, a flask of water. Diving down again, he found the ship's cat, Fluffy, on a shelf above water level in the cabin, brought her up in a sea bag, along with blankets, the ship's chronometer, a sextant, a flashlight, a picture of his wife...
...made profound studies of the "conditioned response" and whose specialty is the mechanism of hearing in mammals. By last week Dr. Culler had finished installing his battery of gadgets and he was able to show Rochester newshawks how he determines the threshold of hearing in a dog, cat or guinea...
...creature runs. A faint musical tone sounds, followed after a short interval by a mild electric shock administered through the bars of the cage. If the animal runs the turning of the cage switches off the current, thus sparing the subject further shock. After a few experiences the dog, cat or guinea pig learns to avoid shock by running the moment it hears the musical signal. When this conditioned response is set up Dr. Culler can easily find the threshold of hearing by steadily diminishing the loudness of the signal until the animal no longer responds by running. Dogs, which...