Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Southern Chinese area dominated by three groups of "Chinese Nationalists''† was extended northward last week by the advance of their several armies toward Peking. The reaction of U. S. President Coolidge to this situation was to inform reporters that the removal of the U. S. Legation from Peking down to the seacoast at Tientsin, or even 650 miles southward to Shanghai, was contemplated. The reaction of John Van Antwerp MacMurray, alert, pugnacious U. S. Minister at Peking, was to keep the cables busy with code messages which legation officials privately said were appeals for instructions to stand...
...adequate as Widener Library; consequently the books assigned are in the majority of cases not quite so archaic as manuscripts or so involved as law briefs. It is not overstating the case to say that the reading periods as instituted next year-will have a very definite reaction on the work done in summer vacations. At present the average man feels that reading done independently and without coercion is very fine but it has little to do with his scholastic success in college. He must eventually learn, however, that reading with or without an incentive is seldom quite barren...
...American Reaction. His Majesty's Government in Canada immediately followed last week the example of His Majesty's Government in Great Britain, notified the Soviet Trade Delegate in Montreal that he must depart...
...welcome then will doubtless be the greater for its delay. Manhattanites have acquired, largely from his electric personality, an increasingly positive reaction to symphony. Five years ago they filled only 71% of the Philharmonic's seats during the season. Last season they filled...
...Muir's analysis of the idiot's mind is more intense than the acuteness of a clinical report, for he sharply transmits to the reader the emotional reaction to large events, strained through a limited but unimpassive consciousness. He has maintained a changing balance of domination in the wills of his characters, and the movement of successive mutations of superiority and inferiority mark the progressions in the plot. Mr. Muir's psychology, symbolism, and philosophy are inextricably dove-tailed, while the constant flux of affirmation and negation in the mind of Hans may be capable of many interpretations. There...