Someone was making use of the machine to actuate the auditory nerve directly.
"Tangle Hold"
F. L. Wallace
Missouri's feeling was precisely that which would actuate Oregon or Washington Territory to-day, if either wished to annex part of Northern Idaho.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt
The purely animal man, which is never wholly extinguished, which merely lurks unsuspected under centuries of cultural veneer to rise lustily when slowly acquired moralities shrivel in the crucible of passion, now began to actuate Hollister with a strange cunning, a ferocity of anticipation.
"The Hidden Places"
Bertrand W. Sinclair