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Word: reacts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third and most important reason why this particular statement should not have come out at this time is that the Ivy League scheduling meeting irritated many other Ivy League schools and it is doubtful that this will react to Bingham's advantage when it comes to making up he 1952 football slate...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 12/3/1949 | See Source »

Patterson further asserted that "the men who rule us are bent on fascism. They brought about the anti-Negro and Jew demonstrations at Peekskill just to see how the people would react to their big step to fascism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peekskill Rioting Attacked as Step Toward Fascism | 11/23/1949 | See Source »

...score the touchdowns. In the era of super-coaching, when defensive and offensive adjustments are made up to the instant the ball is snapped, a new type of football player is in demand. The first quality Wilkinson and other topflight coaches look for, even in linemen: ability to react quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big Four | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Poor Bombs Are Easy. The trick is to bring them together quickly enough. If they approach one another slowly, they begin to react before they are fully in contact. The heat developed drives them apart prematurely, and the reaction stops. In the bomb described in the Smyth Report, the masses were driven together, probably in millionths of a second, by some such "low-order explosive" as TNT. Even if the Russians did not do as well as U.S. scientists, their less efficient bomb would still produce an "atomic explosion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Striking Twelve | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...Supreme Court ruled that the Champaign, Ill. school board had violated the Constitution when it permitted religious instruction during school hours and on school property (TIME, March 22, 1948). Champaign thereupon closed down its formal religious program; churchmen and educators waited to see how other communities would react. Last week, a survey by the National Education Association gave the first comprehensive check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Year Later | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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