Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contribution to the already seething cauldron of European politics, one even more ominous than the decline of the franc, is the news that a Fascist movement is underway in Germany. Taking advantage of the anti-administration reaction to the Genevan disappointment, Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, through the influential medium of the Telegraph Union, a news syndicate which he controls, is about to launch a nation-wide campaign to promote the establishment of a dictatorship, Meanwhile he hopes to win over the various anti-republican factions to his standard, thus forming a powerful organization corresponding to the black shirted myrmidons of Mussolini...
Sensations, messages from the outer world, are carried by afferent nerves to definite lobes and to definite locations in these lobes. There the grey cells in the cortex mull the influences of these stimuli, play with them, sometimes bury them as memories. If a physical reaction is wanted, consciously or subconsciously, the brain sends out its will by way of efferent nerves to the organs of expression, to the limbs, the viscera, the tongue, the hand...
...Reaction came sharply. What had happened was "too awful" and the banks rushed out to support their customers. Bears licked the blister better by covering their short sales...
...America and Director of the Classical Theatre on the Palatine in Rome, is bringing a subject as good as his titles with him to the Fogg Museum at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon. He will be talking on the history of culture in Italy, more specifically on the reaction to the Middle Ages, a lecture made for vagabonds, especially those who have seen the exhibit which Dr. de Bosis has brought to the Fine Arts Museum...
...educators in America. But it may be questioned if the major charge in the indictment does not apply to the intellectually docile student himself. Not even authority can make a mind so servile as apathy. The student whose critical contribution to his own education is confined to a reaction to the bearing of his professor, or his necktie, or his manner of speech, is dooming his own mind to be a cold storage warehouse, whence after months of disuse a fact may be resurrected in the same condition as that in which it was stored away...