Word: keys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yale University got four chimpanzees for animal psychology research, encouraged them to breed. Now Yale has 40 apes. Last week Professor Milton C. Forster described a competition between young chimpanzees and two children lent by faculty members. Both apes and moppets were silently trained to release a telegraph key when stimulated in turn by a sight, a sound, a touch. The apes' reaction times were as fast as the children's. Even when the subjects were trained to a "choice response" (two keys, two stimuli) the animals held their own with the humans...
...penniless Philadelphia musician pawned a gold, jewel-studded, key-winding watch bearing the inscription: "To Benjamin Franklin, in memoriam, September 3, 1783, David Hartley...
...felt that the field of political interest was still large, especially as a national election was coming in November. It made a deal with Congressional Intelligence to condense and reprint its compilations with credit. This week 23,000 copies of the Collier's booklet (49 pages") go to "key" businessmen and editors throughout the land...
...Committee of Five for the Betterment of Radio. Members: Paul Whiteman (Kraft's Cheese), Rudy Vallée (Fleischmann's Yeast), Guy Lombardo (St. Joseph's Aspirin), Abe Lyman (Phillips' Milk of Magnesia), Richard Himber (Studebaker). Similar committees, they announced, would be formed in Chicago and San Francisco and other key cities...
...Duchess of Milan. When the Duke calls on Cellini, the artist is making love to Angela, his model (Fay Wray). The Duke changes his mind, pardons Cellini, takes his model to his summer palace. Presently the Duchess visits Cellini's workshop. She commissions him to make a key, asks him to bring it to the summer palace. Cellini arrives with the key while the Duke is entertaining Angela. When the Duchess orders him out, he slaps her face, carries her toward a convenient sofa...