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... cage full of dead flies constituted a powerful argument for air - conditioning in the eyes of the administration . On this particular day , however , all the windows were open in a vain effort to catch whatever vagrant breezes were ...
... cage full of dead flies constituted a powerful argument for air - conditioning in the eyes of the administration . On this particular day , however , all the windows were open in a vain effort to catch whatever vagrant breezes were ...
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... cage from top to bottom ; instead they pace from end to end like proper zoo animals . Accordingly , the cage teeters like a seesaw . Everytime it tilted one of the two wires dipped into its mercury pot closing an electrical circuit ...
... cage from top to bottom ; instead they pace from end to end like proper zoo animals . Accordingly , the cage teeters like a seesaw . Everytime it tilted one of the two wires dipped into its mercury pot closing an electrical circuit ...
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... cage is remarking to his room- mate , “ Boy , have I got this guy trained . Every time I press the lever he gives me a pellet of food ! " More often than not it is indeed a question of who is conditioning whom . Higher forms of learning ...
... cage is remarking to his room- mate , “ Boy , have I got this guy trained . Every time I press the lever he gives me a pellet of food ! " More often than not it is indeed a question of who is conditioning whom . Higher forms of learning ...
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