Olds

[ ohldz ]

noun

1. Ransom Eli, 1864–1950, U.S. automobile pioneer and manufacturer.

Example Sentences

Contemporary neuroscientists have since questioned Olds’s results and offered a more complex picture, implying that the stimulation may have simply been causing a feeling of “wanting” devoid of any “liking.”

From Singularity Hub 

However, back in the 1950s, Olds and others soon announced the discovery of the “pleasure centers” of the brain.

From Singularity Hub 

Around the same time as Olds’s experiments with the rats, the Nobel-winning biologist Nikolaas Tinbergen was researching animal behavior.

From Singularity Hub 

But Olds did more than build Nurse-Family Partnership; he did the rigorous evaluation to prove it would work.

From The Daily Beast

Although she loved her job teaching five-year-olds, she recently quit.

From The Daily Beast

High quality, free preschool for three and four year-olds growing up in low or moderate income households.

From The Daily Beast

Fourteen-year-olds will not support a subscription-based model for music.

From The Daily Beast

William slipped into a wet suit and got into the outdoor pool, snorkelling with a group of eight-year-olds.

From The Daily Beast

Rev. Olds gives his political allegiance to the republican party, which he has long supported.

From Project Gutenberg

Wid Bobs an' a few three-year-olds, I'd swape any army av the earth into a towel, an' throw it away aftherwards.

From Project Gutenberg

Onward speed our dapper greys, fresh as four-year-olds; and the further we go, the better they seem to like it.

From Project Gutenberg

To the intent gaze of the nine-year-olds he was much more important than can be explained from this view-point.

From Project Gutenberg

Irish horses are often put into the plough as two-year-olds—a fact which had been forgotten.

From Project Gutenberg