Word: dog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike famed Pheidippides, the Greek runner who fell dead as he took the last step of the first marathon in 490 B.C. (22 miles from Marathon to Athens), 31-year-old Golfer Ferebee, after dog-trotting almost 40 miles a day for four days, topped off his super-marathon by stopping at New York's World's Fair Grounds and playing his 601st hole on the stroke of midnight for publicity before continuing to Manhattan and a hotel bed at last...
...Professor Pavlov's dogs was taught that a circular light flashed on a screen meant food, that an elliptical light meant none. Then the ellipse was gradually rounded out until it was nearly circular, but no food. This psychological double-cross sent the dog into a nervous state called traumatic neurosis, from which he had to be rescued by rest and daily rectal instillations of bromides. An obedient motorist is conditioned to stop at a red light, to proceed at a green. But Dr. Fabing's research marked the green as a treacherous come-on, since often just...
...platform and began to complain about his room in Hastings Hall. "I live at 51 Hastings," he said, "a room with adjoining towel. It's so small I have to go outside to change my mind, and, you know, we're so cramped that we've taught the dog to wag his tail up and down...
...Brud Holland et al, is rather glum. It is glum enough to realize that they soundly whipped a really topnotch Colgate team, glummer still when you realize that Cornell will outweigh Harvard 21 pounds to a man in the backfield. Still, Harvard is a better underdog than top-dog; that has been proved often...
...high-wire leap and Ann joining a snake act. Thereafter the story centres on the Big Show at Madison Square Garden, spotlights the thinly disguised big-time circus stars: the Flying Codonas, Hugo Zacchini, Clyde Beatty, and, most brilliantly of all, the "animal-audience." Sure enough, Bob's dog act is a flop. Ann is bitten by a huge python and has a miscarriage. And every high-wire leap plunges Bob closer to a nervous breakdown. When he is only a few days away from a psychopathic ward, Ann hatches a scheme to get him fired...