Word: respondents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Internationally-minded advertising men pondered the matter of how England would respond to the somewhat radical Kensitas campaign and how large would be the future shadow representing Kensitas sale's figure. They recalled that Mr. Hill had made a strenuous attempt to sell, in his unique manner, Wix & Son's Wix cigaret, that this attempt had been a failure. The blame, however, was placed on the product rather than the advertising: England is used to a tightly rolled cigaret and Wix was of the loose-rolled U. S. variety. Taking no chances, he picked for his second attempt...
...Corwin declares, one of the great points of college methods is to inoculate the student with the principles of self-education. This is an aim completely divorced from secondary school methods and it is necessary to impress this change upon first year college students if they are to respond to the intellectual stimulus that the college is supposed to offer...
When Mr. Gandhi should reach the sea, when he should defy the British salt monopoly,* when he should break British law by scooping up a little sea water and publicly evaporating it to recover a mere pinch of salt?what then? Would enough Indians respond to this, the agreed signal for nonviolent, mass civil disobedience? Would they obey the Mahatma, abstain from paying taxes, abstain from all obedience to British employers or superiors,? buy no British cloth, and pray that they may meet Death all innocent and nonresisting at British hands...
...women M. P.'s to have the privilege of bathing in Parliament also. With some difficulty and no little expense he set aside one of the Parliamentary bathrooms, tastefully shrouded it in cretonne, appointed a respectable, middle-aged bathmistress. The lady M. P.'s did not respond. While the bathmistress, with soap and towels at hand, received her salary in idleness, Commissioner Lansbury protested loudly that he had been deceived. He had spent the people's money under the impression that the ladies...
...best general conditions are: temperature range between 40° F. and 75° F.; humidity 60.* Because individuals respond with varying ease to changes of humidity and temperature, the individual optimum is best indicated by his pulse rate. The nearer to normal his pulse goes the more efficient he is. The normal pulse rate for men is 68 to 75 a minute...