Word: hot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mile. Biget screamed. "Blankets! blankets!" cried the spectators. In an instant, friends who stood ready with blankets had smothered the flames. Emerging, Mlle. Biget seemed more nervous than singed. "I got so hot," she said, "that I thought I'd better scream...
Shrewd Hearst Editor Arthur Brisbane hastened to slap the epidemic into his column while it was still hot news, unconfirmed, undenied...
Normally dogs snatch at food; elephants reach out their trunks for it. A man will pull his hand away from a hot plate. These are examples of unconditioned reflexes, fully developed in infancy. They constitute the equipment with which the animal faces life, according to the behaviorists.* By modifying the conditions, the simple reflexes may be changed, becoming more complicated, or conditioned. The process of changing an unconditioned reflex into a conditioned reflex was clearly demonstrated to an audience of psychiatrists at the Academy of Medicine last week, in a cinema entitled "The Mechanics of the Brain...
...Yankee camp in St. Petersburg, Florida, Babe Ruth stopped running on third base. He was afraid if he went on his feet would blister. John Koszciusko Grabowski, catcher, took off a reducing shirt when he was hot, caught cold. Lou Gehrig wrote his mother to send him a jar of potted eels...
...gallery Spectator James Miglio was mauled by a special detective, led off to court in his undershirt and trousers. The band played "Among My Souvenirs." As is usual in six-day races the records of all previous six-day races in lap-stealing, attendance, and the eating of hot dogs (called by bicycle riders "Coney Island chicken") were broken...