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