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...side of the tube is a door, through which a little drum may be placed, and as the pig breathes pressure causes the drum to contract, raising and lowering a pointer which marks on a revolving smoked drum. This apparatus is rather amusing, for the guinea pig crawls into it without any encouragement, and once inside never attempts to move. When the experimenting is over, one merely points the tube toward the light and the pig will crawl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCIENTISTS CONDUCTING PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDIES OF DIFFERENT ANIMALS | 3/12/1932 | See Source »

...direction of Von Sternberg is as usual obvious because of its elusiveness. His China is unbelievably like the China we had always hoped to see; and once we have watched the Express crawl between the overhanging rafters of an ancient city, chasing foolish chickens before, it is difficult to accept a more prosaic film. To have seen Shanghai Lily looking like a caged imperial tiger as her black gown swirls about her is to have seen a figure that spoils one for lesser women...

Author: By H. B. B. jr., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/4/1932 | See Source »

...dragon will crawl across future maps of Missouri. Its head will be at Bagnell, in the central part of the State. Its tail and claws will twist 129 mi. westward. It will be labelled Lake of the Ozarks, largest artificial lake in the world, created by a dam across the Osage River built by Stone & Webster for Union Electric Light & Power Co. (North American subsidiary). St. Louisans and Kansas Citizens will have summer shacks and duck shooting lodges along its 1,300 mi. of shore line. St. Louisans, who will consume a large part of the dam's annual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Lake of the Ozarks | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

Life is a perpetual dilemma for the turtle. The heads apparently do not realize, as do joined human twins, that they have a common destiny. The two pair of front feet always attempt to crawl in divergent directions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Two-Headed Turtle | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

...offering creamed sweetbreads to his lapdog. Bibulous, he made his body servant drink three bottles of champagne in quick succession and cackled: "You are drinking for my pleasure, not yours.'' He made the same servant drink a mixture of Worcestershire sauce, pepper, sherry, port & brandy; made him crawl on the floor like a dog, bark, eat out of a saucer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 28, 1931 | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

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