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WHICH is the better weather fore-caster, a squirrel or the Maintenance Department? Tradition assumes the sqirrel, and according to reports so far the squirrel has not prepared for a cold winter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overset | 12/7/1937 | See Source »

...much make me laugh. Your review of Hemenway's latest book, To Have and Have Not, which sounded so good don't stick in one particular. Why, he wrote the first part of that book three, four years ago. I read it as a short novel fore I come in the Navy two year ago tenth of next month-in Cosmo, seems like I remember. The Spanish dident even know they was going to have a war then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 8, 1937 | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...results," they wrote, "of stimulating the left side of the cat's cerebellum for five seconds can best be presented by describing a single attack. During the stimulus the cat suddenly drew back its head, leaving both fore feet extended in front. As the stimulus ceased, the cat lifted its left forefoot and held it up for 30 seconds. At one minute after the stimulus the left forefoot was again lifted gradually until it was held high in flexion. The foot and leg seemed sensitive to touch. The foot was gradually returned to the table but remained tense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctors & Cats | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

When Experimenters Clark & Ward touched the right side of the cat's cerebellum, the cat performed the same movements in the opposite direction starting with the right fore limb. Whenever they touch the midline of the cerebellum, "both fore limbs are involved at once and the cat may sit on its haunches with both fore limbs in the air; then both hind limbs become affected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctors & Cats | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...fearful sea raged all day, making it impossible to launch a boat. Yet without one chance of surviving, nine men launched a life-raft. A huge wave broke the line and knocked two overboard. After dark another line was made fast to the fore-rigging, and by means of a breeches buoy the two remaining men, more dead than alive, were landed. One was the mate, who told the people that he had seen his wife and little boy drown when a wave broke into the cabin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/6/1937 | See Source »

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