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Word: reacted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Girls react more violently to stresses & strains than boys, but they relax and recover more quickly. This difference probably explains why men are more likely to have stomach ulcers than women, declared Dr. L. W. Sontag, of the Fels Research Institute at Yellow Springs, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: In the Age of Anxiety | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...shipped 350,000 to U.S. and foreign researchers. Deprived of the Bar Harbor strains, many researchers will have to start their laborious work all over again. To a researcher, a pedigreed mouse is a precision instrument. No ordinary mouse, nor a mouse of another strain, can be expected to react in exactly the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mouse Hunt | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...England. Ties as belts were not normal Threadneedle wear. Britain's financial pants for two and a half centuries had been held up by the stoutest braces. At last the almost omniscient Treasury had made a major mistake in estimating how the world's currency exchanges would react...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Tough Years Ahead | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...with a glare and say, 'You stupid bitch.' But it doesn't mean anything to me. I know he's working up some hate he has." Sometimes the little fellow returns and says experimentally: 'You silly cow.'" Mrs. Neill fails to react, and the boy is supposed to lose his little inhibition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: That Dreadful School | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

...long enough to turn out a well-trained soldier or a bluejacket. But a longer period, said the committee, would have "an adverse effect on the processes of higher education," which is also an essential part of national defense. During basic, boys would be taught to think, act and react like soldiers. The commission's plan followed almost exactly the one proposed by the War Department last January after it had dropped its proposal for one year of training as politically unpalatable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Reluctant, Unanimous | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

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