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Word: reacting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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 »

...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 »

...these so different political offenders react last week upon being pressingly invited to jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Invited to Jail | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

...author and her heroine, between whom it is hard to distinguish, have one rare thing in abundance. They have race. They react sharply and lastingly to experiences like Sara Spain's (the heroine's) rescue from the surf by Siercy Hodd, her sweetheart and lover in lazy, lovely Georgia. They abominate the starched prosiness of the northern Haskell clan into which Sara marries, but they are game. After screaming, "Hop-toads!" at elder Haskells, they apologize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: May 9, 1927 | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

...battle between Progress and Superstition, whether it be one of the old historic duels of Feudalism and Enlightened Democracy or one of the more recent tilts between Biology and Fundamentalism. What a tyrannical ruler is custom! When it comes to changing a folkway, Timbuktu, and New York react in exactly the same manner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Birth Control Must Accompany Civilization's Further Advance | 4/27/1927 | See Source »

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