item: #1 of 8 id: 31626 author: Smith, Evelyn E. title: The Vilbar Party date: None words: 3592 flesch: 83 summary: You _will_ come this time, won't you, Narli? Narli Gzann rubbed his forehead fretfully. Narli Gzann had been chosen as first exchange professor between Saturn and Earth because of his academic reputation, not his personality. keywords: able; course; desk; earth; exchange; face; food; frismil; gzann; job; karn; laugh; little; matter; mind; moment; mrs; narli; nuts; parties; party; perzils; planet; president; professor; public; purrington; right; room; saturnian; slood; strange; students; terrestrials; thing; thought; time; vilbar; work cache: 31626.txt plain text: 31626.txt item: #2 of 8 id: 34468 author: Brebner, Percy James title: Christopher Quarles: College Professor and Master Detective date: None words: 84935 flesch: 84 summary: Other men would have emptied themselves of the dregs of their vocabulary; Quarles only smiled, cheerfully explaining how he had come to top a ball, or why he had taken half a dozen shots to get out of a bunker. Early one morning about a week after the mad burglar's case, I received a wire from Zena Quarles, asking me to go to Chelsea as soon as possible. keywords: account; affair; afraid; afternoon; answer; anxious; ashworth; assistant; attention; baines; baker; bank; barrymore; better; boat; body; books; box; boxes; brain; broken; buried; business; captain; car; case; certain; chair; chance; chapter; chauffeur; chelsea; chest; christopher; cigarette; clear; clerk; close; clothes; coleman; coming; companion; considerable; constable; convinced; corner; course; crime; cross; curious; dark; day; days; dead; deal; dear; death; definite; detective; diamonds; different; difficult; direction; doctor; door; doubt; drawer; early; easy; eccentric; eccles; end; ends; evans; evening; evidence; evident; ewing; eyes; face; fact; family; fancy; farm; father; find; fire; fitzroy; floor; following; friend; frisby; gang; garden; gentleman; george; gilson; glasses; gold; golf; good; great; half; hall; hands; harrison; hartmann; head; help; hidden; high; home; hours; house; housekeeper; husband; idea; important; inclined; information; innocent; insurance; interested; interesting; isaacson; james; jardine; jewels; jim; joseph; judd; key; kind; knowledge; lady; large; late; leconbridge; left; letters; life; like; likely; line; little; living; locked; london; long; look; lord; love; making; man; manner; marsh; martha; master; mean; mind; missing; mistress; moment; money; morning; morrow; morton; mrs; murder; murderer; mystery; natural; necessary; necklace; nephew; night; notice; o'clock; occasion; office; oglethorpe; old; open; opinion; ottershaw; outside; papers; parrish; particular; past; people; person; peter; pit; place; pocket; point; police; porter; portman; position; possible; pounds; prepared; present; professor; purpose; quarles; question; ratcliffe; ready; real; reason; result; return; road; robbery; roof; room; round; safe; satisfied; saturday; search; secret; seligmann; servant; set; shed; short; silver; simon; sims; sir; sitting; small; smith; solicitor; standing; statement; station; stones; story; strange; street; strong; study; sum; sunday; support; sure; suspicion; table; talk; taxi; tell; theory; thieves; thing; thinking; thought; time; town; tragedy; treasure; trouble; true; truth; uncle; victim; village; visit; wait; wakeling; watch; water; way; wealth; wife; wigan; window; withan; woman; wonder; wood; work; world; writing; wrong; yacht; yard; years; yesterday; young; zena cache: 34468.txt plain text: 34468.txt item: #3 of 8 id: 4510 author: Benson, Arthur Christopher title: Watersprings date: None words: 78761 flesch: 83 summary: Howard saw Maud bend over it and caress it. Howard felt, as he had often felt before, how little attention even able and intellectual Englishmen paid to the form of their talk. keywords: able; absurd; affair; affection; afraid; afternoon; air; amused; anne; anxious; ashamed; aunt; aware; awful; bad; bear; beaufort; beautiful; beauty; best; better; big; bit; books; bored; boy; boys; business; cambridge; care; case; cat; certain; chair; change; charming; child; children; christian; church; claim; clear; close; college; comfort; comfortable; company; confidence; conscious; content; contented; country; course; courteous; courtesy; cousin; curious; dark; day; days; deal; dear; dearest; death; deep; definite; delight; delighted; delightful; desire; different; difficult; dim; dinner; dons; door; doubt; dozen; drawing; dream; dull; duty; early; easy; education; elderly; emotion; end; energy; evening; excellent; exercise; experience; expression; eyes; face; fact; faint; family; far; father; fear; feeling; fellow; fine; fire; fishing; force; frame; frank; free; fresh; friendly; friends; friendship; garden; gift; girl; glad; god; good; grateful; graves; great; green; guthrie; half; hall; hand; happiness; happy; hard; head; heart; help; hidden; high; hold; home; hope; hour; house; howard; human; humour; ideas; imagination; influence; instinct; intellectual; interest; interesting; jack; joy; kennedy; kind; lack; large; later; laugh; lawn; leave; left; library; life; like; line; little; live; living; long; look; looking; love; luncheon; making; man; manner; manor; marriage; material; matter; maud; mean; men; mere; merry; middle; mind; minutes; miserable; miss; mistake; moment; money; monica; morning; morrow; mother; mrs; music; mysterious; natural; nature; near; need; new; nice; nonsense; note; object; old; older; open; pain; papa; particular; party; pass; passion; past; people; perfect; person; place; play; pleasant; pleased; pleasure; point; pool; poor; position; possible; power; presence; present; pretty; pupils; quality; question; quiet; read; real; reason; redmayne; relations; religion; return; rich; right; road; room; round; sandys; sate; saw; saying; scene; secret; self; send; sense; sensible; sentimental; serene; set; shooting; silence; silent; simple; small; smile; sorry; sort; soul; spirit; spring; stay; stone; straight; strange; strength; strong; stupid; sudden; suffering; sun; sure; surprised; sweet; sympathy; talk; taste; tea; things; thought; time; tired; touch; trees; trouble; true; trust; truth; turn; undergraduates; unhappy; vague; valley; vexed; vicar; vicarage; view; village; visit; voice; walk; want; way; week; white; wife; windlow; wish; woman; wonderful; words; work; world; worst; worth; wretched; wrong; year; young; youth cache: 4510.txt plain text: 4510.txt item: #4 of 8 id: 46405 author: Singmaster, Elsie title: Basil Everman date: None words: 75028 flesch: 86 summary: It was confidential and pleasant enough in tone and Dr. Lister could not understand a word, but he was certain that she was worrying Mrs. Lister. I will go to Thomasina's, said Dr. Lister, and I'll stop at Dr. Green's and-- Do not ask them any questions! cried Mrs. Lister. keywords: account; afraid; afternoon; alcestis; angry; answer; anxiety; anxious; arm; arms; asleep; astonished; astonishment; attic; baltimore; basil; basil everman; bates; bear; beautiful; bed; beginning; bent; best; better; black; blue; body; books; boy; boys; bright; broad; brother; bureau; business; campus; care; certain; chair; change; chapel; chapter; cheeks; children; church; city; class; clear; closed; clothes; college; color; coming; commencement; common; company; complete; compositions; continued; conversation; cool; cora; corner; country; course; covered; cry; dark; daughter; davis; day; days; dead; deal; dear; death; deep; desk; determined; die; different; dim; dinner; doctor; dollars; door; downstairs; drawer; dreadful; dress; dull; early; effort; eleanor; eleanor bent; end; english; evening; everman; excited; experience; expression; extraordinary; eyes; face; facts; fall; fame; family; far; father; faversham; fear; feeling; figure; fine; finished; floor; forgotten; friend; frightened; garden; gate; genius; ginter; girl; glad; glance; good; gown; gray; great; greater; green; half; hall; hand; happy; head; heart; heavy; help; henry; high; history; home; hope; hotel; hour; house; human; husband; important; incident; instant; interested; interesting; keeper; key; kind; kitchen; knees; knowledge; lamp; large; late; learned; left; letters; life; light; like; line; lips; lister; lister house; literary; literature; little; little mrs; long; longer; look; love; low; magazine; making; manda; margie; married; mary; matter; mental; mind; minutes; miss; moment; money; morning; morrow; mother; motion; mrs; music; myers; need; new; note; o'clock; office; old; older; open; opinion; organ; pain; pale; paper; parlor; past; pay; people; period; person; piano; picture; place; plans; play; playing; pleasant; pleased; poetry; poor; porch; position; possible; prepared; president; pretty; professor; promise; pæstum; question; quiet; read; reading; reason; remembered; return; richard; richard lister; room; roses; saying; school; scott; search; second; sense; sentence; set; shadow; sharp; short; silence; single; sitting; small; smile; smooth; sorry; soul; sound; speech; startled; step; stories; story; stranger; street; study; sudden; summer; supper; sure; sweet; table; talent; talk; tall; tavern; teacher; thank; thick; things; thinking; thomasina; thought; time; tone; touch; town; train; trouble; true; twice; uncle; utterly; village; virginia; voice; volume; walk; walking; walter; waltonville; watch; way; white; wide; wife; wild; willard; willing; window; wish; woman; words; work; world; writing; wrong; years; yesterday; york; young; youth cache: 46405.txt plain text: 46405.txt item: #5 of 8 id: 51153 author: Clothier, Bill title: The Semantic War date: None words: 2933 flesch: 85 summary: And it seemed that the younger people and the women preferred the Moraddy, while elderly people and most men were on the side of the Wistick. Carlson--the Wistick dufels the Moraddy! keywords: campus; carlson; certain; door; feeling; good; green; group; happy; life; lillick; little; living; men; moraddy; morning; movement; office; people; philosophy; professor; simple; sort; street; students; thing; thought; time; university; war; way; white; wife; wistick cache: 51153.txt plain text: 51153.txt item: #6 of 8 id: 57669 author: Futrelle, Jacques title: The Problem of Cell 13 date: None words: 79487 flesch: 86 summary: The world at large had heard vaguely of Professor Van Dusen as The Thinking Machine. The Thinking Machine! keywords: acid; affair; afraid; afternoon; answer; apartments; artist; attention; austin; automobile; awhile; bank; banker; bars; bath; bed; beginning; big; bills; blood; body; boston; boy; broker; building; business; butte; cabell; car; case; cashier; cell; certain; circumstances; city; clarke; closed; condition; constable; copper; course; crime; curtis; dark; day; days; dead; deal; dear; death; detective; doane; doctor; dollars; door; dunston; dusen; electric; end; ernest; escape; evening; expression; eyes; face; fact; family; far; fear; feet; field; fielding; figure; fingers; floor; forward; fraser; gas; gentleman; george; ghost; girl; good; grace; great; guard; hair; half; hall; hand; handkerchief; handwriting; harrison; harry; hatch; head; heart; heavy; henley; home; hotel; hour; house; husband; hutchinson; idea; inn; inside; jailer; jean; jewels; john; knife; know; large; late; left; letter; life; lights; like; linen; little; locked; long; look; looking; love; mallory; man; manager; manner; manning; marguerite; martha; mason; matter; melrose; mental; mind; minutes; mirror; miss; moment; monarch; money; morning; motive; mrs; murder; mystery; national; near; necessary; new; newspaper; night; note; o'clock; odor; office; old; open; outside; paper; past; pause; perfume; person; phone; picture; pipe; place; pocket; point; police; position; positive; possibility; possible; president; preston; prisoner; private; problem; professor; puzzled; question; quick; ransome; rats; reason; reception; regnier; reid; reply; reporter; response; revolver; road; robbery; robe; room; run; safe; save; scientist; search; sell; shirt; shot; silence; silent; sir; slender; slight; small; smile; sort; stanford; staring; steel; story; stranger; street; studio; telegram; telephone; tell; things; thinking machine; thought; thread; time; tone; unconscious; valet; van; veil; village; voice; wall; warden; way; weston; white; willis; window; wire; woman; word; work; years; young cache: 57669.txt plain text: 57669.txt item: #7 of 8 id: 60434 author: McConnell, James V. title: Learning Theory date: None words: 5604 flesch: 80 summary: It didn't take me long to discover that pressing the lever would give me food some of the time, while at other times all I got was the click and no protein ball. Sometimes I have to press the lever a dozen times or so before it will give me anything, while at other times it gives me one ball for each press. keywords: animal; apparatus; behavior; box; colony; correct; door; experiment; floor; food; good; hell; human; jumping; learning; lever; like; little; maze; mind; moment; performance; problem; protein; rats; reinforcement; results; reward; room; situation; skinner; small; species; stand; sure; table; theories; theory; thing; thought; time; use; wall; water; way cache: 60434.txt plain text: 60434.txt item: #8 of 8 id: 60614 author: Phillips, Rog title: Rat in the Skull date: None words: 9005 flesch: 86 summary: But anyone who studies the published writings of Dr. MacNare must inevitably conclude that he was a competent, responsible scientist, and a firm believer in institutional research, research by teams, rather than in private research and go-it-alone secrecy, the course he eventually followed. Certainly, on that day in late August, 1955, at the little cabin on the Russian River, a hundred miles upstate from the university, when Dr. MacNare completed his paper on _An Experimental Approach to the Psychological Phenomena of Verification_, he had no slightest thought of going it alone. keywords: adam; alice; animal; baby; bill; board; body; control; coroner; course; days; door; end; eyes; feeling; feet; field; finger; frame; good; head; helmet; home; human; husband; impossible; joe; later; legs; life; like; little; long; macnare; metal; moment; movements; old; open; paper; paul; project; rat; rats; research; right; robot; room; small; son; soul; sound; study; system; test; thing; thought; time; tony; university; use; veerhof; voice; way; white; wife; work cache: 60614.txt plain text: 60614.txt