Word: respondents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grown too cynical, maybe in 1914 they still had international courtesy and men who burned to sacrifice their lives for a woman or the fatherland; but particularly when such pre-War idealism is worked into as threadbare a plot as that of "Ultimatum," we may well be permitted to respond with a sad smile...
...prepared," said Dr. Perla last week, "... [showed] little or no evidence of shock. . . . Operative recovery was more rapid than usual and in many instances the patient gave the impression that he had not experienced a major operation." Traumatic shock, he concluded, such as occurs after wounds and accidents, "may respond readily" to large amounts of the natural hormone injected directly into the bloodstream...
...Cling to the Christian ideal . . . it is only by force on the battle ground that evil can be resisted." The group of undergraduates thus addressed did not respond; it persisted in motionless silence. "The racial doctrine as interpreted in the Nazi creed is sheer, primitive nonsense . . . be proud of the race to which you belong"--Still no hurrah shouts from the audience. The catch-words of 1914 do not catch any more; their halo has faded out in the grisly twilight of reality. British youth knows that war is a messy business; and it refuses to believe the old-school...
...group of boys called the 'Gold Coasters'," stated the deputy, "used to have a private car fully equipped for fires, with which they would respond to every alarm in Cambridge and even in Boston sometimes even before the fire department. "Since the abolition of call firemen and whistle alarms", added Deputy Church, "student 'sparks' are very scarce...
...chromium, manganese, silicon, carbon and titanium which maintains extreme hardness at high temperatures. Two bell-shaped castings, one of ordinary steel, one of K-42-B, were heated red-hot in a furnace. When the red-hot steel bell was struck with a hammer, it was too soft to respond with anything but a thud. But the red-hot K-42-B bell, when struck, rang out clearly, like a church bell on a sparkling winter day. The Westinghouse people call this exhibit "Hell's Bells...