Word: sparkly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intensity and duration of both the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus. The particular reflex in question is one which occurs in connection with the breathing curve of guinea pigs. Dr. Morgan Upton noted, a few years ago, that when a guinea pig is stimulated with a small electric spark a sharp rise in the breathing curve takes place. Mr. Spear hopes to condition this reflex to a 1000 cycle note, and to study the formation of this with special reference to the above mentioned conditions...
...immediately mauled by all in sight. A radio announcer yells at a microphone, cameras click, and moving picture machines purr. The scene is almost Shavian in its magnificence. The poor boy has not a moment to himself. He becomes conceited and changed, but still has a spark of the "old Yankee spirit." The final outcome is what makes the story interesting...
Because Professor Allison's magneto-optical apparatus is his own contrivance, many a scientist doubted his discoveries. A few used similar machines, notably Professor Joseph Llewellyn McGhee of Emory University, Atlanta. Light from an electric spark is polarized by a Nicol prism, then sent through a cell containing carbon disulfide, a second cell containing a water solution of any substance to be tested; lastly through a second analyzing Nicol prism. Each of the two cells is surrounded by a coil of electric wire which becomes an electromagnet. The coils are so wound that the swings of the magnets...
...year. The proportion at Harvard has dropped the lowest; from 24 per cent five years ago to 23 per cent last year. "Mind you, Harvard is where the fire of learning was lit. All the other fires of education in what's now the United States had their spark from Harvard. And now. . . ." --Time
...becoming an increasingly popular custom to point out with horror the lack of interest that college undergraduates show in the political and social movements of America. Look at the Spanish students, they say, who were the spark of every really important revolution in good Alfonso's glorious reign. Spanish politicians were careful to have these firebrands on the right side. Look at the English youth, they say, who eat, sleep and talk politics, and who could save the nation with a plan of their own before breakfast and still have time to settle the Indian question before lunch...