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Whether snakes respond instinctively to the charmer's whines and whistles is still an unsettled problem in animal psychology. Snakes have little brain and much spine. They are quick to respond to stimuli, and perhaps react directly to seductive vibrations. More probably their swaying-it is no dance-is a conditioned reflex. Charmers feed their snakes well, in India with milk, flour balls and meat (frogs). And it is doubtless with mounting hope of meals that snakes raise themselves to the fakir's minor music. Charmers who have tried their art in U. S. zoos and serpentaria have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Snakes | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...Deputation Committee have been, as examination of the report shows, particularly active. Changes in the scope of the latter committee's endeavors have subdued the emphasis formerly placed on Harvard delegations to churches, and given more attention to the preparatory school visits. Such a change is sure to react more directly to the benefit of the college itself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOOD AND FAITHFUL | 4/4/1928 | See Source »

...would not be only decent to give such a subscriber at least $10 for services which are to your profit. It makes me angry to see people trying to get away with something for nothing. That is not a straight way to do business. It will not react to your favor in the long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 21, 1927 | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

...therefore important that social maladjustment occurring in the moron group should be brought out in the open and should, as a problem, be viewed within the realm of mental hygiene and for practical purposes mental levels should be forgotten. . . . Some morons are normal; they react normally to their environment; they are honest, industrious and well poised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mental Hygiene | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

...which should actuate every schoolteacher and college professor. I cannot conceive of a woman threatening boycott even on such illusive provocation. But fear not. Her veiled threat that she will make enemies for TIME throughout her limited sphere of influence will, if put into effect, produce results which will react contrary to her expectations and very much to your advantage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 1, 1927 | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

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