Word: ratting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seattle last week Dr. Stevenson Smith, University of Washington psychology professor, delighted colleagues and students by showing them a complicated "mechanical rat" which he and a helper had worked five years to perfect. Living rats, especially white ones, are favorites with animal psychologists who teach them to traverse complex mazes bristling with blind alleys, studying the effect on maze-learning of food, light, electric shock, drugs, blasts...
...Stevenson rat is impervious to all such lures and hindrances. Resembling a three-wheeled roller skate loaded with small motors, electromagnets and switches, the robot is set on a track containing twelve forks at each of which a wrong turn leads to a dead-end. The robot is first set to take the turn to the right at every fork. When this proves to be wrong and results in a bump against the dead-end, the "rat" goes into reverse, backs up past the fork, goes forward again, taking the correct left turn. This resets the controls in such...
...them where it is. . . ." Then the pirates begin reaching into the ladies' dresses for their jewels. Routed at last, when the disgraced third officer heroically redeems himself, the pirates disappear leaving the Kin Lung much better off than it was before. MacArdle is exposed as an amiable human rat. Captain Gaskell seems better disposed toward China Doll. The drunken novelist is sneering at the barkeep...
Thank you for the laugh on M. Bovèrat v. Miss Warner. I was very much puzzled as to why the National Alliance for Increasing the Population of France should be so upset by nude dancing. M. Bovèrat's statement that "women after beholding such indecency, don't want to have children," increased my bewilderment. How does he know...
...rare occasions, left inside a patient, every soul connected with the loss frantically searches for the missing stuff. Last week Britain's National Physical Laboratory offered such radium hunters a small, efficient radium locater. Sensitive to the electromagnetic gamma rays which radium continually ejects, it emits a shrill rat-a-tat-tat of clicks whenever it approaches a radium hideout...