Word: gulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such simplicity allows zoologists to do experiments with animals almost as if they were chemical compounds. Professor Tinbergen tells how he bothered a herring gull horribly by putting a red wooden egg in her nest. The shape and size of the egg were correct; they tended to release the gull's incubating reaction. But the red color touched off an attack reaction. The poor confused mother fought an exhausting battle between conflicting drives, until the "sitting drive" dominated long enough to allow her to sit down. She could feel the egg's tender shape beneath her, but could...
...work and was admiring my view from the porch; the incoming tide, the crimson and orange and gold of the sunset, the delicate nuances . . . when suddenly, nature ceased to be nature and became a wet painting. This sensation was so real, that when a sea gull suddenly soared across my vision, I exclaimed, 'The fool! Its lovely white wings will be smeared with paint...
Winthrop--rf, Guren; 1b, Foster; p, Bixler; 2b, Ways; ss, Nichelson; 3b, Welsh; c, Wallace; cf, Williams; 1f, Ecob. Kirkland--c, Tanner; p, McGaffrey, Singer; 1b, Felton; 2b, Senay, Gull; 3b, Perry; ss, Winters; rf, Killam, Knight, Weary; cf, Cogan, Bluestone; lf, Flynn, Beck, Metzer; sf, Kingsburg...
Action grow desultory in the second 20 minutes, and the officials contributed to the gull by calling a foul almost every time the ball changed hands. Crossin's agile left hand occasionally brought the Red and Blue to within ten points of the Varsity, but Mariaschin's set shots and Hauptfuhrer's tip-ins kept the Crimson lead comfortable at critical intervals...
...Army does not admit officially that it plans to shoot rockets at the moon. Congress might think it frivolous, though the moon is the handiest gull's-eye for extra-atmospheric target practice. In spite of the Army's reticence, Dr. J. A. Hutcheson, associate director of the Westinghouse Research Laboratories, has heard unofficially that the Army's first moon rocket may be fired in 18 months. This seemed optimistic, considering the difficulties. But last week Dr. Hutcheson was excitedly designing a radio station to be rocketed to the moon, where it would broadcast back to earth...