Word: select
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Food & Shocks. The only way to find out what the octopus brain can do with this wealth of sense information is to experiment with a living octopus. Zoologist Wells explains that the octopus likes to select a "home," a cranny or hole in a pile of rocks, and sit there waiting for food to come within grabbing range. Its perception can be tested by tempting it with bits of food or with things that look more or less like food, and it can be educated by a system of rewards and punishments, such as slight electric shocks. The octopus readily...
...recent Fund-sponsored meeting of 50 U.S. educators, foundation officials, and representatives of the U.S. and British governments. Drawing on their views, the Fund urged "a coordinated but not centralized" plan of U.S. aid from both public and private sources. It would focus on Africans "of highest promise," select students "only on merit and in open competition." The winners would be suitably financed for at least their first year in the U.S., get training specifically geared to their needs back home. As for overall supervision, concluded the Fund, "only the United States Government has the resources to finance promptly...
...last week was a request from President Eisenhower to create 40 additional federal judgeships. Because he thought the need urgent, Ike offered to split appointments evenly between parties. In no such hurry, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson answered that there was no time in so short a session to select and confirm new judges. "Most regrettable," rumbled Attorney General William P. Rogers. Johnson, he charged, was ignoring "thousands of Americans who are denied justice because of delay...
...second). Between its fares and the contributions of buffs from Nairobi to New York, the Bluebell Society expects to "preserve puffers for posterity." And with Britain alone scuttling an average of four steam locomotives a day, says Captain Peter Manistry, R.N. (ret.), a charter Bluebell member, "we can select the best steams from everywhere. Why, we'll be unique...
...prediction that the outcome would be decided by noon Monday, five hours before the convention's official opening. "This will come as a great surprise to the delegates," rumbled Johnson. "Most of them thought they were going to Los Angeles to confer with their fellow Democrats to help select the next President." In San Francisco, his last stop before Los Angeles, Johnson noted derisively that Kennedy first-ballot delegate claims had backtracked in three weeks from 710 to 600 votes. "California, here I am," thundered Johnson in his speech to a disappointingly small welcoming crowd at the Los Angeles airport...