Word: olds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Old rumors that the Arabs had hidden large ammunition stores plundered from retreating Turks ten years ago were given credence as heavy shooting increased...
...speech potent and ringing. Dr. Stresemann demanded that that major portion of the Young Plan which fixes what Germany must pay be immediately ratified because: 1) It was approved by all; 2) The date on which the Young Plan was designed to supersede the old Dawes Plan was Sept. 1; 3) All German budgetary arrangements had been made in good faith to pay Reparations on the Young Plan scale which is $132,000,000 less per average year than the Dawes Plan scale; 4) The expert drafters of the Young Plan declared that it represents the utmost practical capacity...
...brain. Behaviorists have taken up his theories and made them fairly common knowledge. His picture of mental activity is mechanistic. The brain acts according to habits. Certain repeated stimuli condition it (and the physical and physiological activities which it 'controls) so that the reappearance of a stimulus causes the old response. Sight of a milk bottle makes the baby suck his lips. Sleep, he considers, is the result of inhibitions keeping stimuli from overworking the brain or causing it to do useless work. The human brain, he told the physiologists, is the most fruitful and most important study now confronting...
Sent Home. Grover Cleveland (''Old Pete") Alexander, 42, 18 years a National League baseball pitcher, holder of the all-time league record for game-winning (373)i member of the St. Louis Cardinals; to Nebraska on full pay for the balance of the season; by Club Owner Samuel Breadon; for breaking training after he lost a game to the New York Giants. He had an edge on every other team in the league. His career's score with the Giants finally stood: Alexander 39, Giants...
Indeed, Boston's 16-year-old Miss Palfrey started off like a good prospect. She quickly disposed of early-round opponents. She easily disposed of England's brilliant Mrs. D. C. Shepherd-Barron. Then she met Mary Greef from Kansas City, with whom she takes turns winning and losing. Last week it was Miss Greef's turn to win and the Palfrey prospects faded. Then Miss Greef had her turn at losing, bowed to California's little Helen Jacobs...