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...vegetable-eating, pot-bellied folk were minding their daily affairs in their village on a source branch of the Rio Zingu. Women were tending babies, or grating manioc, or preparing the red paint with which they protect their naked bodies against insects. The bob-haired men were fishing with spear or bow & arrow, clearing manioc fields or fetching firewood. Some were erecting great communal houses of wicker. Although not new in anthropology, the construction of the houses was original with the Yawalapiti, who never saw any other houses. They invented trusses of tree trunks to bridge over the large areas...
...experiment, being conducted by Ellis Spear III 2G, is an attempt to study the formation of conditioned reflexes, with special references to the 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...
William Richardson, Woonsocket, Rhode Island, Jullen Ripley, Jr., Oyster Bay, New York, C. R. Rubel, New York City, P. L. Rusden, Somerville, Bryan Rust, Purcellville Virginia, R. DeW. Scott, Montreal, Canada, Muzafer Sherif, Smyrna, Turkey, H. A. Smith, North Adams, Ellis Spear, 3rd, Newton Centre, H. C. Spencer, DeKalb, Illinois, S. R. Sternthal, New York City, D. F. Strong, Winsted, Connecticut, Chi-Tung Tseng, Washington, D. C., Yeh Chih Yang Washington...
Partner Abraham Silberman came forward to learn the cause of the discussion. The middle-aged man produced his card. He was that spear of righteousness JOHN SAXTON SUMNER of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. Said Partner Silberman: If Mr. Sumner would bring his wife to the gallery and if she found the picture objectionable they would remove it and apologize publicly. Otherwise Susanna would remain in the window. Mr. Sumner refused the offer, turned on his heel...
...firearms or motor boats. Under these restrictions the seals began to multiply again, the shrewd U. S. kept on collecting profits. In 20 years the U. S. Treasury made two million dollars from the sale of sealskins after paying Japan and Great Britain and letting the Indians spear their share...