Word: prickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week on a platform perched in the masonry of Manhattan's Riverside Church tower, 16 well-muscled men and one well-muscled woman shivered in a northwest gale and listened. They did not have to prick up their ears. The din was deafening enough to split eardrums less inured. Around them boomed the 72 bells of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Carillon, loudest and biggest in the U. S. The biggest of these bells weighed as much as a good-sized army tank, the loudest of them could be heard in the neighboring State of New Jersey...
...Paris clinic, Hypnotist Charcot had often commanded drowsy neurotics to shed their symptoms. But only a few obeyed the doctor's powerful will and woke up cured. Yet hypnotism was the only scientific light which could prick the deep caverns of the unconscious mind, and even if it brought no lasting cures, young Dr. Freud could not very well do without...
...fertilizing sea-urchin eggs with chemicals and producing young larvae, he struck a heavy blow at the popular vitalistic theory which maintained that some intangible "vital spirit" or "entelechy" was necessary to life. Sixteen years later, he grew healthy tadpoles from frog eggs fertilized by a needle prick, showed his scientific opponents that no vital spirit from a male frog was necessary for creation of new life...
...Army reservation surrounded by civilians, and big enough for a variety of targets and ground defenses, was the Field Artillery's Fort Bragg, 100 miles inland from the North Carolina coast. Two months ago, Brig. General Fulton Quintus Caius Gardner went to work to sharpen civilian eyes, prick civilian ears in 39 counties and 20,758 square miles around Fort Bragg. In each of 307 eight-mile squares, the cooperating American Legion found farmers, storekeepers, housewives, amateur radiomen, foresters willing to look & listen from 6 to 10 p.m., 4 to 8 a.m. on designated days...
Virtuous Colonel General Göring also rises daily at 7 a. m. and takes a cold shower. In case the No. 2 Nazi seems depressed, his valet finds he can always prick up General Göring by putting on the phonograph the Heroes March from Wagner's Götterdämmerung...