Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whether snakes respond instinctively to the charmer's whines and whistles is still an unsettled problem in animal psychology. Snakes have little brain and much spine. They are quick to respond to stimuli, and perhaps react directly to seductive vibrations. More probably their swaying-it is no dance-is a conditioned reflex. Charmers feed their snakes well, in India with milk, flour balls and meat (frogs). And it is doubtless with mounting hope of meals that snakes raise themselves to the fakir's minor music. Charmers who have tried their art in U. S. zoos and serpentaria have...
...jazz until Daniello recognized its tone over the radio and set the police on him. Desperately then Jonny tried for escape. He bought a ticket for Amsterdam. He would go back home and "never leave the dear White Way again." But the police were too quick for him and he had to drop the violin-on the luggage of Max, who consequently was arrested for the theft. But Jonny was invincible. He blackjacked policemen, sent Max for the train that would start him with Anita for the U. S. where a big contract awaited. Jonny had what he wanted...
...Turkey, kinetic President Mustafa Kemal holds that intellectual progress depends solely upon quick assimilation of Western ideas...
...quick growth and insistent daily unsolicited demand for the Innovation Ingenuities precluded planning for future possibilities, and we had to add one factory after another, which while giving a certain advantage of segregation, increased the fixed charges of the products...
...Brightly burned the gasoline, with orange flame, black smoke. Soon the Negro's flesh became hot, reached what is technically termed the "point of combustion." Then the Negro also burned. Watching citizens heard groans, screams, pleadings. "Get me done with," cried the flaming Negro, "get me done with quick." The fire was out in 15 minutes...