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Word: rung (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Battling Siki slipped down another rung on the steep ladder to fame by losing a 15-round newspaper decision to Battling Owens, New Orleans heavyweight. Siki appeared to be out of condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boxing Notes | 2/4/1924 | See Source »

Owing to the large number of men who have been using the University squash courts during the mid-year period, bells will be rung at 11.50, 12.00, and 12.20 until February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To Limit Morning Squash Games | 1/28/1924 | See Source »

...LOVE WITH LOVE-Lynn Fontanne (Dulcy) one rung higher on the ladder of achievement in high comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Oct. 15, 1923 | 10/15/1923 | See Source »

...saliva and the digestive juices at the sight or smell of food. By a simple surgical operation, Pavloff brought the duct of a dog's salivary gland to the surface of the cheek and measured the flow under stimulus of food. At regular feeding times a bell was rung, and after several repetitions it was found that the sound of the bell alone, without food, stimulated the saliva. This process, known as a "conditioned reflex," has been repeated in scores of forms by physiologists and psychologists on both animal and human subjects. It forms the basis of much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pavloff | 7/23/1923 | See Source »

...London, the first night of Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie, with Pauline Lord in the title role, received a tremendous ovation. After the first act the curtain was rung up a dozen times during the applause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema Notes, Apr. 21, 1923 | 4/21/1923 | See Source »

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