Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interlocutory decree granting $200 a week alimony and the custody of his son to Edna Davenport Tinney; at Mineola, L. I. Said she: "I may remarry Frank." Meanwhile they plan to tour the country together as a vaudeville team. Uncharitable persons allege that the divorce will create a favorable reaction at the boxoffice...
...while the past season has exalted college football to new glories, it, has also done something in the opposite direction. From the very magnitude of the evil has sprung a reaction. Numerous indications show that in many colleges many students--both players and non-players--are renouncing the foolish idolatry of the game, and no longer worship in abject humility before the jealous gods of football. This reaction is especially strong at Harvard...
...quantity, have a sterilizing effect fatal to life. X-rays are absorbed by half an inch of lead. The Millikan Ray will pierce six feet of lead; it is the product of elements uniting with an energy charge 50 times as great as that evolved by any reaction known to the earth...
...topple the motor stocks over in a record day of 3,400,000 share sales. Because of this unprecedented volume, many ignorant people concluded that a panic had started. As a matter of fact, nothing of the sort developed. The smash in motors was simply a large-scale reaction in a strong "bull" market, as proved by subsequent events. In succeeding sessions of the stock exchange, prices steadied and in some cases shot upward to new high levels. The whole episode may be dismissed as signifying nothing in particular to U. S. business in general except, perhaps, that a note...
...stock market, led by the motor shares, had continued to soar for months and a reaction was obviously overdue. In such a situation, as has often been proved, the crash in prices can be and usually is attributed to almost any event whether it has any close bearing on the stock market or not. In this particular case it was raising of the rediscount rate of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston from 3½% to 4%-a step occasioned by purely local conditions. Speculators in stocks, dealing in a market which had grown top-heavy of its own accord...