Word: snakes
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Having prudently given the rattlesnake a paralyzing injection of curare, the researchers uncovered one of the nerves leading out of a pit organ and connected it through an electrode to an apparatus that amplified and recorded its electrical impulses. When they blindfolded the snake but did not excite it otherwise, the sound that came from the amplifier sounded "like grease cooking slowly in a pan." But when Dr. Bullock moved his warm hand near the snake's pit, the sizzling sound increased "as if you had turned the heat up." A lighted match or cigarette produced the same effect...
High point of the ceremony starts with a dance by the elders. They form in a line representing a snake, the symbol of immortality. One by one, the warriors join in. The heads that are carried aloft are symbols, not only of death, but of future life,*for attached to them are precious names for the next generation: the ceremonial immortality of the tribe is assured...
Skull and Bones, Scroll and Key, Berzelius, Book and Snake, Elihu, and Wolfs-head, Yale's six societies, will claim 90 of the Eli's most "important" juniors. When quotas are filled, windows are slammed to indicate that the tapping has been completed, and the 400 or so juniors still in the courtyard begin to file...
...late circus king, John Ringling, cleared a snake-&-alligator-infested swamp to build the museum, which resembles an Italian palazzo. The wealthy collectors of his day were attracted mainly by early Renaissance and Impressionist paintings. Ringling instinctively preferred the flamboyance of 16th and 17th century Baroque art. By following his own nose and ignoring the sniffs of rival connoisseurs, he was able to stuff his museum with king-size treasures at bargain prices. He bequeathed it to the state of Florida when he died in 1936, and the collection remains a monument to his sometimes shaky but always lordly taste...
Adler, who "started strangling the snake of positivism almost in his cradle," confuses his philosophical asp with his theological elbow-and TIME comes tumbling after. What Adler would do is to identify philosophy with religion. Though this is not a new enterprise, Adler thinks that he has given it what it has for centuries lacked: a sound logical basis. Modern logicians (fusty gentlemen who, as a rule, do not hire others to do their doctoral research), many of whom are not positivists, refuse to preside at Adler's shotgun marriage. Thus Adler's quarrel is not only with...