Word: sound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cinema showed dogs which dripped saliva at the sound of a bell, monkeys which marathoned to the food box at the sight of a red card, children who opened hungry mouths when their wrists were pressed. These are examples of conditioned reflexes and upon this conditioning is based the difference between the lower and the higher animals, including...
...preparedness and the dog will secrete saliva as he goes for the food. Only the lower parts of the brain are concerned in this reaction. But, if a bell is rung every time the food appears, there will come a time when the dog will secrete saliva at the sound of the bell when there is no food in sight...
...voices of candidates, possible and impossible, sound only very faintly through the din of investigations, charges, and counter-charges now filling Washington. Whoever the next President may be, he surely has an aversion to standing with both feet on his own platform...
...whether it was the Marines or the Sandinistas who were most surprised. The outcome, disgraceful to the U. S. Marine scouting service, was a prolonged pitched engagement. Only the fact that another Marine patrol, under Capt. William McNulty was in the vicinity, and rushed up at the sound of firing, prevented an ugly outcome. Eventually, the Sandinistas were driven to withdraw into the underbrush, and jungles, which is their natural and protective element...
...with terse culinary titles grows fast. BREAD-OIL-STEEL-have worried bones of social contention. Now MEAT. But if Author Steele started with a social passion he soon abandoned it to fondle various phases of human distortion with apparent fascination. Readers who have long counted on his stories for sound enjoyment, will be astonished to encounter here a collection of picayune obscenities importantly treated, and a legitimate argument abused and invalidated...