Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Japan's Crown Prince Akihito, 24 this week, reported to his three humble tutors on his studies of fish psychology. First, he had trained some salmon, bass and carp to associate their feeding time with the lighting of a red lamp. Having established a conditioned reflex which led the fish to expect food whenever the light was switched on. Akihito then impaired their vision by tinkering with their ophthalmic nerves. His scientific conclusion from the experiment (no surprise): the delicate operation caused the fish to "lose their previous ability to connect the lamp's red glow with food...
...Aren't we all?" said Her Majesty, smiled graciously and moved on. Thus the Crown noted the existence of the most raucous sound currently abroad in Great Britain: the throbbing voice and thumping guitar of Pop Singer Tommy Steele...
...pallbearers, but the promise of a guinea apiece "was not large enough to overcome the shyness habitual to the maiden state; so, in the end, Mr. Hirst had to fall back upon widows, who, being more accessible, were regarded by him as not being worth more than half a crown each...
...fact was that Elsie May Keene was not sick at all. Before she began her rounds as a special investigator working for the State Board of Medical Examiners, she had been checked by physicians from crown to toe, pronounced in excellent health. Last week Attorney General Will Wilson told her stories as he staged a Texas-style roundup, corralled 61 naturopaths in 29 counties. Wilson asked for court injunctions to restrain them from practicing. At his heels in what they called "Operation Quack Quack," district attorneys were proceeding against the 61 on criminal charges (unlawful practice of medicine), possibly graver...
...luxury and craftsmanship of the past, there are few remnants of Korean art. Out of the tombs have come such works as the stoneware Mounted Horseman, wearing a noble's peaked cap and leather armor of the 5th-6th century. Even more impressive is the antlerlike gold crown ornamented with jade found in a tomb of the Old Silla dynasty (57 B.C.-668 A.D.), whose hardy kingdom in Southeast Korea gradually extended its sway over the whole peninsula. With its similarity to the animal motifs of the Scythians, it suggests that early Koreans had more in common with...