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...example of association in fish Professor Gray pointed out that monks in certain monasteries used to call up fish at feeding time by ringing a bell, that this has been duplicated in the laboratory: a bell is rung at fixed intervals before the food is presented; after a number of repetitions, the fish begin moving toward the customary feeding point as soon as the bell starts ringing...
...minutes later. Mr. Chamberlain knelt, kissed His Majesty's hand. The King passed over the seals of office and the keys of the Prime Minister's dispatch box. 'Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain rose to his feet. By this brief ceremony he had reached the top rung of Britain's political ladder, a height attained neither by his father Joseph nor his more-publicized late half-brother Sir Austen...
...Starbuck as a brother TIME reader and fraternity brother in the seagoing profession is just a "wee bit" dramatic in parts of his statement but I feel he speaks the truth when he says, "Many a young officer who is on the first rung of the ladder to command owes his push upward to the books sent aboard...
...ceremony draws to a close, Abbey carrilloneurs ring 5,040 changes of "Stedman triplets.'' Conductor H. N. Pitstow boasts proudly: "This will be the first time a full peal of 5,000 changes has ever been rung at a Coronation." The music is scarcely appreciated by queues and clusters of tired peers who, upon emerging from the Abbey, find at last one spot in the planning that has broken down: the car-parking and call system. Crouching on the steps in their finery, leaning against pillars, some of them must wait as much as four hours...
...inspiring in Hollywood producers, is an insurance drummer's daydream. It makes the business as exciting as a bugle call, magnificently sombre as the roll of muffled drums. Good shots: Benjamin Franklin sitting down at Lloyd's with Boswell and Sam Johnson; Lloyd's bell, rung twice for good news, once for bad, tolling out the tragedy of the Azores...