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...avoid confusion and to keep the dances up to schedule, a bell will be rung dances up to schedule, a bell will be rung at the beginning of each dance. During the first period no cutting-in will be allowed. After supper, however, cutting in will be permitted during the encores, which follow each dance. The signal for the completion of an encore will be two bells. The complete musical program follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOX-TROT MONOPOLIZES JUNIOR DANCE PROGRAM | 2/27/1924 | See Source »

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 »

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