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Word: reacting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very difficult to react intelligently toward "Lady Precious Stream," In all honesty it must be confessed that its excessively exotic qualities have the immediate effect of alienating the baffied spectator. He is more than apt to take the thing quite unsympathetically, and dismiss it as infantile makebelive. It is only after he has leisurely considered the explanatory notes on the program that he begins to wonder if he should have enjoyed the play in spite of himself. There is an elucidator in the performance, but he's such a fop that one is inclined not to listen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 12/5/1936 | See Source »

More power to TIME and its return to the air as a weekly. Its daily dramatization had lost the punch of the once-a-week broadcast. It was a real thrill for this more than six year cover-to-cover reader to react again to the stirring episodes of our recent history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 9, 1936 | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...CRIMSON has aimed at simplicity throughout in its presentation of the returns. No partiality will be shown whatsoever, every effort being made to give this great service to the voters of the University and of the City of Cambridge in such a manner that all may gaze, react, and instantly understand the full import of the epoch-making events that will be portrayed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Election Returns to Be Flashed From Bell-Tower of Old Appleton Chapel in Revolutionary Fashion | 11/3/1936 | See Source »

Risking his life. President Companys finally appealed to decent citizens of every class to master the popular ruffians. "Against their acts," cried the President, "our citizens ought to react violently by whatever means they have at their disposal!" This amounted to saying that the majority of the rabble might be wrong, and Luis Companys nervously concluded, "Perhaps I ought not to say what I have said, but I believe that I may be excused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: 'Doing Wonders | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

Shrinking Drinks. To demonstrate how rapidly capillaries react to heat and cold. Dr. Fred Bennett Moor of Los Angeles had a fellow doctor take a drink of ice water while holding his arm immersed in a tank of water. Soon as the cold drink made itself felt in the demonstrator's stomach, water level in the tank fell measurably, thus indicating that the cooled stomach drew blood from the capillaries of the arm. Consequently the capillaries shrank, and the bulk of the arm with them. These changes must have some effect on heart and lungs, argued Dr. Moor, urging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Physical Therapists | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

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