Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Asiatics richer and more avid of the good things of life, of the comforts so many of which we can supply so readily and profitably. Consequently, every acceleration of European demand for the raw materials, exotic fruits, luxuries, and semiluxuries, produced by these far-off lands, will react directly upon the latter's buying power and desire for American specialities...
...Budget Committee, is significant, namely, the frequent publication of figures, the full release of information regarding all those activities in which the Council as the agent of the undergraduate is participating. A more intimate knowledge on the part of the undergraduate in the work of the Council would react to the mutual advantage of both parties...
Professor Taussig makes some very interesting observations in the current number of Foreign Affairs on the subject of increased tariff schedules. In the same magazine the Harvard economist is vigorously supported in his contention that the new high rates will react unfavorably to the United States. This support comes from the author of "America Comes of Age," the celebrated French economist, Andre Siegfried, who points out meaningly that Europe has become strong enough to retaliate against unduly high tariff measures. The analysis of Professor Taussig together with the intimations from France suggest that the present Congress has been busy sowing...
...mother so belabor gentle Geraldine that she, cowed, consents to marry Chandler. But beforehand, with an abandon quite inconsistent with her chill softness, she gives herself to the disconsolate Wells. This she blurts out at a Christmas feast given by Chandler for practically the entire cast. Does Chandler react as" one might have expected from Mother Girard's warnings? He does not. He is happy in the happiness of the lovers. But by this time the audience has been prepared for his magnanimity by seeing him spurn a splendidly groomed and golden mistress (Verree Teasdale) for the less lustrous...
...other sort for that matter. It has always been his endeavor to make of himself, so far as possible, a cultured individual, rather than a more or less perfect example of the plumber's art, which should, when the right tap is turned and the right chain pulled react in the customary and appropriate fashion. Of course, that will not provide him with a sheepskin, and he shall probably have to content himself for some time with goat hide...