Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...word 'stone' can never have the affect of the object. To say, 'I shall pull your nose' may be as effective in producing anger as to carry out the threat. A man's mouth waters when he first eats a lemon, then when he sees another eating it, then when he hears the word 'lemon'. When this occurs he has learned the meaning of the word. It is astonishing (with references to Pawlow,) how much you can tell by watching a dog's mouth water. I certainly think this idea of the conditioned reflex largely covers the question of meaning...
...Lowell House by half a length over the three quarter mile course from the Weeks Bridge yesterday afternoon. Although both crews kept the beat low, the Dunster boat managed to hold the Lowell crew at a slower stroke, until, as the finish drew near, he raised it sufficiently to pull away and win the race...
Said David Lloyd George: "If the nation remains steady and united we shall pull through all right...
...heads have sullen, stubborn ultra-turtlish expressions. The right head is bolder than the left. First to emerge from the sheltering shell after a fright is the right head. That head usually makes the first snatch at food. Food always causes a contention between the heads. One tries to pull food from the other. They tug until the fly, cricket, or scrap of meat tears apart...
...Drinker machine does that (TIME, Sept. 8, 1930). It is a metal box weighing 700 Ib. A person unable to breathe voluntarily is sealed in the chamber, all except his head. An electric pump creates a mild, interrupted vacuum in the sealed box. The vacuum is sufficient to pull up the victim's chest. That action pulls air into his lungs through his mouth which remains exposed to the free air. When the chamber vacuum is released, his chest falls, air is squeezed out of his lungs. The interrupted vacuum thus makes him breathe at a normal rate, keeps...