Word: responded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...president of his Princeton class (1923), as famed in college for his unobtrusive Christianity as for his athletic ability (varsity football end), this model son of model parents is recognized by the Doctors Mayo as their crack stomach surgeon. Because Son James Roosevelt's stomach ulcer failed to respond to rest and diet last summer (TIME, Aug. 22) he returned to the clinic last week. "Howdie" Gray was named to operate. President Roosevelt called for his special train and sped westward. After talking with the President. Dr. Gray moved the operation ahead 24 hours...
...cosmic clearance"-i.e., a victory for Compton (TIME, Jan. 13, 1936). By that time most cosmic ray workers were speaking in terms of particles, and photons were dropping rapidly out of the picture. Among the mass of evidence for particles, one key point is that the fact that they respond-as electrically inert photons could not-to Earth's magnetic field, showing variations by latitude...
From Moscow last week came a dispatch that a two-headed, four-armed, single-bodied human female born last November still lives. Named Irina & Galina, on the principle that the heads have separate personalities, the dicephalous infant is reported to smile and to respond to her names. Irina & Galina is also noteworthy in that, unlike most monsters, she has a definite usefulness...
Consequently, when an advisee refuses to see his adviser or to respond intelligently to lectures, he is spiting only himself; when a man graduates without once meeting a professor he admires or shaking hands with President Conant, it is his fault--to be blamed upon his lack of initiative. Going halfway with teacher, adviser, and dean is the obligation of each Freshman. Likewise, it is his duty to be useful in college, by contributing somehow to its life; particularly does it fall upon him to develop a practical social philosophy which will anchor his outlook on the modern world...
...comfortable armchair and watched the blazing logs kindled in his fireplace. "We must take action." How often he had sat in that chair, watching the fire and hearing a soothing voice that urged him thus! Always the fire seemed to catch the spirit of the voice, and respond to its glowing tones with ever more brilliance. Like the voice, it would subside and become quiet for a time; and then, once again, it would burst forth, ever agitated, glowing, ardent...