Word: respondents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prosecution." Bovine Brains. After thorough study of the manners and aptitudes of 72 horses, 48 cows and eleven sheep, Miss Pearl Gardner of Cornell University's Agricultural School declared her belief that cows are smarter than horses. Horses, she said, trust man more than any other domesticated animal, respond instinctively to human guidance and are good at the more mechanical forms of learning, but frequently behave in ways which do not redound to their own benefit. "Cows," she continued, "catch on to things quicker, remember better. And strangely enough the cows that give the most milk are the smartest...
...belief of Mr. Jacobs that a trainer who expects to get good treatment from his horses should respond in kind. He inspects each of his charges several times a day, makes them practice no more than is absolutely essential, hires the best available exercise boys. He believes that every horse has requirements in exercise, food and personal habits different from those of every other horse. He makes a point of discovering and supplying these. One of the most sensational Jacobs horses this summer has been Amagansett, a 6-year-old jumper which Mr. Jacobs got last spring for the nominal...
...urgently the plea of Gummere to do some one thing well and hard, preferably something that is of spontaneous interest rather than something prescribed. He finished by observing that by and large most of the people he had met, even at Harvard, were susceptible to decent treatment and would respond in kind...
...affluent member of 1911 paid an income tax on $125,000 a year. Another reported himself "a tramp," added, "I have not slept in a bed for five years." Of 16 men even their families knew nothing. Author Tunis concludes that most of the 88 who failed to respond to letters, telegrams and telephone calls are probably "failures," that, taken together with the failures who did answer, about one-eighth of his classmates are either on relief or are living on handouts from relatives...
...Influenza, sinusitis, respiratory inflammations, duodenal ulcers, heart disease and other ailments "respond quickly" when Osteopath Chester L. Farquharson of Houston, Tex., manipulates his patients' ribs into their proper places...