Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...several theories of allergy stand out as useful - he protein theory and the reagin theory. Two points are certain about hayfever and the other allergies: 1) certain substances are mildly poisonous to certain people; 2) people react to their personal poisons in specific ways. The irritants may be plant pollens (ragweed, timothy, oak), foods (wheat, milk, eggs, fish), ani maldanders, feathers, dusts. The victim may show his symptoms in his nose and eyes (this is hayfever per se), his skin (hives), brain (migraine), intestines (colitis). Two theories concerning the physiology of allergy have many followers among the specialists. One theory...
...pugnacious throng massed outside his office the President roared: "If the nation does not react to the fact of outrage it does not deserve to be a nation! [Cheers]. But my government knows how to defend the honor and dignity of the Fatherland! Viva Bolivia...
...country or group of countries in the world can isolate themselves from the fortunes of the rest. . . . Whatever may be the position at a later period, at the present time we in the British Empire, inevitably depend on world prices and can afford to do nothing which might react adversely on world confidence and so check the recovery of world prices...
...must come through him. The court was powerless to carry out the jury's recommendation for clemency, and unless immediate executive commutation intervened, all four prisoners would be forced to pay the penalty for their crime. And while Governor Judd knew well that native sentiment demanded punishment and would react disagreeably to undue leniency, he was influenced even more by expressions of American opinion which reached him. The Governor was not only an American appointed official, he was a white man; and he commuted the ten-year sentence to one hour...
...suggested would entail a curriculum composed entirely of survey courses. Experience with such courses has shown that they are usually shallow and uninspiring. Whether or not men should know one field thoroughly or several sketchily may be a debateable point, but there is no doubt as to how students react to this question. The mere character of the survey course, even under the best management, would be enough to dissuade earnest students from constituting their four year curriculum entirely of such material. They would vastly prefer to attend a school where specialization was the rule...