Word: scamper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eight-tube brain. When the creature hears a whistle just before it sees a light, the two stimuli are blended and remembered together. After this has happened enough times, these combined memory oscillations acquire a compelling power. When the whistle blows again, they force the mechanical turtle to react (scamper forward) just as if it had seen a food-promising light...
Pennsylvania will scamper out on the floor with a record of eight wins and three losses for the year, including two victories over Yale. However, Coach Howie Dallmar's squad has yet to beat a strong team...
Like the charmed rats of Hamelin, Americans scamper to follow the compelling advertisement, convinced that it would be disloyal and remiss not to "remember mother," assured that one remembers her best with cash, once a year. The business index will rise perceptibly, the sweet smell of roses and caramels will steep the land, but on Monday mother will be back at the washtub or Garden Club, bored, neglected and tired. --from the May 9, 1947, CRIMSON