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However, the real reason for the chimpanzee colony, whatever its number, seems to have been revealed in a report recently made by some Yale professors before the American Psychological association in New York. The professors proudly disclosed that the Yale chimpanzees had shown their ability to react to signals as rapidly as children and had been able to reach a goal despite obstacles placed in their...
...Cumul will be abolished, the system whereby one employe holds several posts and draws pay for each, nor can anyone be appointed to a government post in future who already draws a pension. Veterans' pensions will be cut. Politicians waited nervously to see how the public would react to these decrees. By & large it was orderly, but in Paris 1,600 employes of the Central Telegraph office staged a brief protest strike...
Perhaps the first important theory was the belief that the sun was a burning body such as a piece of coal. However, a mass of chemicals as large as the sun could not react for longer than 10,000 years...
...basis of his actions so far; the final answer can be made only in historical retrospect. One thing, however, is certain. Roosevelt, like Lincoln, is a highly sensitive reflector of public opinion; he possesses an uncanny faculty for gauging the mood of the country, and how it will react to any given measure. The reception accorded by the public to his budget proposals is ample testimony to the truth of this. Everywhere they have met with almost unqualified approval by the people...
...would a violinist whirring through Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of a Bumblebee react if a red light suddenly flashed on his music stand? If white and blue lights played before him constantly, sometimes at slow speed, sometimes hectically fast? The violinist, claims round, bushy-haired Vladimir Karapetoff, professor of electrical engineering at Cornell University, would perform better than he does now when all he has to guide him are "the wavy motions of two arms and a recurring expression of rage on a conductor's face." To prove his point Professor Karapetoff has invented a switchboard system...