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Word: responded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...operation to graft normal skin from his chest to his horny palms proved worse than useless: the grafted skin blackened like the rest, then shrank and stiffened his fingers. The boy went to school, but his teachers and the other pupils objected to him. Though he was quick to respond to affection, he got so little that he became shy and lonely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Entranced Skin | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

Rattlesnakes, and such venomous relatives as copperheads and water moccasins, have in their heads two small organs called "pits." Scientists have long known that the pits are sense organs which respond to heat, but they did not understand clearly how they work. In last week's Science, Drs. Theodore H. Bullock and Raymond B. Cowles of the University of California, Los Angeles, told how they hooked up a rattlesnake's pits and studied their actions as if they were microphones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: An Eye for Heat | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

Hogben gives much attention to the question of a question mark. If the Neighbors can be induced to respond and take active part in the discussion, the teaching process should be easier. The morale of the teachers should improve, too, as soon as they are convinced that their class is attentive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Calling All Martians | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

...interest in his schools not by criticizing, but by conferring with the superintendent, school committee, and teachers. As a means of doing away with the "scapegoat" role of modern schools, he suggested that if citizens are given more of a sense of participation in school work they will not respond with attacks, but constructive work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Public Schools Best for Country, States Conant to Teachers Group | 4/8/1952 | See Source »

...broadcast in German, Spanish and Italian. She speaks facile though slightly accented French; at the behest of the State Department last winter she not only delivered a weekly Sunday radio talk from Paris to audiences in France, Belgium and Switzerland, but was able to make the audience respond with a surprising volume of mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Way Things Are | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

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