Word: tubs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apparatus was simple: a galvanized iron washtub with a strong light above it, and a loud electric bell hung inside its rim. Dr. Hall put his mice in the tub in small groups, and watched them for two minutes. The brown mice were slightly more nervous than the black, but also bolder: they ventured more frequently into the middle of the tub...
Then Dr. Hall rang the bell. At the terrifying sound, the black mice tended to crouch and "freeze." The brown mice scurried around the tub, 93% of them falling in convulsions. Nearly all of the ones with convulsions died. Nearly all the strong-nerved black mice survived the bell...
...pool, he does his swimming at the Turners' Club, a gymnasium in Philadelphia's German section. To help himself through La Salle (he wants to be a dentist) Verdeur stokes the furnace at the gym. The Turners' pool is an antiquated 18-by-20-yard tub with no gutters; when Joe gets to thrashing around in it, the sidewash kicks up into ocean-sized waves...
...become almost a truism that the fattest U.S. publishers' prizes go to poor novels. Resting firmly in this tradition, Black Fountains has won its author $20,000 and the publicity tub-thumping that is sure to go with it. The business, if not the literary, reasons for its selection seem fairly obvious. It is an "inside" novel about Japan from 1938 to 1945, and it has a Japanese heroine who is both "modern" and curvy...
...cistern has been successfully rigged up by Lena Bloom, over at the county seat, who turned about six feet of her downspout up so the rainwater runs into a washtub that sets on a barrel, and if there is a light shower she invariably gets enough in the tub to do a washing, but a heavy downpour will not only fill the tub but will overflow and fill the barrel. . . . With the downspout lifted, her supply is ample although she has some trouble getting the washtub, when it is full, down off the barrel. 'I slop...