Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subscribe to your newsmagazine which reaches me every Monday. I spend the evening of that day in reading it. It interests and instructs me very much and I frequently pass it on to friends who tell me that they experience the same intellectual reaction from it that...
...canique Céleste. Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch increased his patrimony by practicing law in Boston. He wrote his father's biography. His brother was Henry Ingersoll (all Nathaniel's children had Ingersoll for middle name) Bowditch (1808-92), Harvard medical professor, discoverer of the "all-or-nothing" reaction of the heart muscle,* inventor of a way to drain chests in pleurisy. The only Bowditch now living sufficiently famed for Who's Who recognition is Vincent Yardley Bowditch, 76, Boston tuberculosis specialist. He is a nephew of the leg-giving Bowditch. In the family tradition he has written...
...South's reaction to this political Hooverization was divided. The Atlanta Constitution said: "Good?If It Stands." The Jackson, Miss., Daily News declared: "They have taken him [Hoover] to a mountain top and shown him the promised land, but on closer inspection he will find it is only a mirage. . . . The G. 0. P. is the Negro party . . . and always will...
...called ionization. The ions then impinge on the paper and oil, and have the effect of a rapid and continual bombardment. They not only perforate the paper with holes, but also because of the formation of nitrates and ozone, cause adverse chemical actions in the impregnated oil. This insidious reaction is cumulative, and in the course of time, the papers and compounds become more and more carbonized and disintegrated which finally results in an explosion of the cable...
Asked for her reaction to the rumored banning of the Junior Dance, Miss Jane Cowl, Hon. '29, and last year's Prom Girl, said "I hope it is banned. Then no one will ever snatch the wreath from me. I do wish I could play Shakespeare more often, though," she added wistfully...