Word: reacting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basis of his actions so far; the final answer can be made only in historical retrospect. One thing, however, is certain. Roosevelt, like Lincoln, is a highly sensitive reflector of public opinion; he possesses an uncanny faculty for gauging the mood of the country, and how it will react to any given measure. The reception accorded by the public to his budget proposals is ample testimony to the truth of this. Everywhere they have met with almost unqualified approval by the people...
...would a violinist whirring through Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of a Bumblebee react if a red light suddenly flashed on his music stand? If white and blue lights played before him constantly, sometimes at slow speed, sometimes hectically fast? The violinist, claims round, bushy-haired Vladimir Karapetoff, professor of electrical engineering at Cornell University, would perform better than he does now when all he has to guide him are "the wavy motions of two arms and a recurring expression of rage on a conductor's face." To prove his point Professor Karapetoff has invented a switchboard system...
...Pope Pius XI should suddenly begin to spend his summers in a high, cool, suburban palace instead of in the low, stuffy Vatican how would most Catholics react...
...with the Foreign Exchange Control Bureau which stubbornly upheld the boycott last week. Hinting at possible U. S. reprisals, Vice President Basil Harris of U. S. Lines declared: "About 83% of the transatlantic trade today is of American origin. Any German policy which would restrict American trade would automatically react to the detriment of Germany. We hope Germany can see her folly before it has harmed her and harmed...
...Conference would agree: that no nation hold to "extreme nationalism" or raise trade barriers; that embargoes etc. "be removed as quickly as possible;'' that tariff barriers "be reduced as quickly as possible;" that in making bilateral or multilateral agreement discriminatory measures should not be taken which "would react disadvantageously upon world trade as a whole...