Word: reacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guppies react much the same way. During the war, White was trying to trace the complicated track of the silent waves as they bounced around inside a tank of water. Baffled by their gyrations, he bought a school of guppies and dumped them into the tank. The little fish lined right up to outline the waves...
Madman's Memory is a study of how the two women react to Luc's disappearance. Françoise has long since given him up for dead, but old Madame La Hourie believes that he will soon return. She hangs out his yellowing shirts to air, orders a servant to drag down from the attic the mattress on which he used to sleep. Françoise tries to humor her mother-in-law's obsession, but in the end becomes almost as obsessed herself...
Undergraduates React...
...Journal of Comparative Psychology, Drs. J. C. R. Licklider and M. E. Bunch describe a revealing experiment on rats (which are very like people in many ways). The problem was to find out how rats react to losing sleep. Rats ordinarily sleep 12 to 15 hours a day. When really sleepy, they will bed down on anything. Bright lights and loud noises do not stop them from trying...
Likes & Dislikes. Theological differences between minister and congregation are considered undesirable (76.3%), but not so undesirable as too few pastoral calls (86.3%). A majority of Methodists (56.9%) react unfavorably to a minister who does not accompany his calls with prayer. As to a recreation program for youth, the prudent pastor will mind his Ps & Qs; 54.2% of laymen approve "folk games" in the church basement, but for "social dancing," 70.1% of Methodists consider church property forbidden ground...