Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week the galleries were crammed and many a Senator strolled over to what it pleases Senators (but not Representatives !) to call the "lower" chamber. For days beforehand, a speech had been advertised by the man who was going to make it. The subjects were to be Agriculture, Secretary of Commerce Hoover and Ohio politics. And the speaker was Charles Brand-Methodist, Mason, Moose, Eagle -who is now enjoying his second term as Representative of Ohio's seventh district (Urbana...
...probable occurrence. There will probably always be the low C, and D, and the E men. The Reading Period has proved this truth. It is the A, B and high C men who employed it to the best advantage; on the other hand, the undergraduates who cling to the lower half of the grade hierarchy seem not to have appreciated the experiment...
...which dripped saliva at the sound of a bell, monkeys which marathoned to the food box at the sight of a red card, children who opened hungry mouths when their wrists were pressed. These are examples of conditioned reflexes and upon this conditioning is based the difference between the lower and the higher animals, including...
...unconditioned reflex is the simplest nervous reaction. A dog will smell food and turn in its direction. Nature believes in preparedness and the dog will secrete saliva as he goes for the food. Only the lower parts of the brain are concerned in this reaction. But, if a bell is rung every time the food appears, there will come a time when the dog will secrete saliva at the sound of the bell when there is no food in sight...
...Institute of Experimental Medicine at St. Petersburg (Leningrad). From then on, his path was undeviating, scrupulous, relentless. His "Work of the Digestive Glands" was crowned by the Nobel Prize in 1904. Having mastered the mechanics of digestion he started speculating on psychic stimulation, the power of suggestion on the lower organs. He conditioned various animals to a bell, to a light, to a color, to the beats of a metronome, and in each case, after appearing with the food a few times, the object itself when presented without food caused the salivary gland to secrete steadily...