Word: respondents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some types of thyroid cancer do not respond to this treatment. The cells cannot be trained to take up iodine and kill themselves. But many patients have been helped to some extent. In four of them the disease has been definitely checked, though not wiped out entirely...
Glisson eased back, snuggled the rail and waited for an opening. In the stretch, Old Rockport finally moved out from the rail. But either the horse failed to respond with a 4-5 effort, or Glisson was too smart to use his colt up with the $100,000 Derby only nine days...
...objection to this formula is that it will not respond to any major agricultural trend until five years have passed. The last ten years have been amazingly plush for agriculture, and market prices are likely to drop considerably in the future. Since the Brannan plan shifts the financial burden from the consumer to the Treasury, the immediate effect of the plan would be a large drain on the public funds. But any subsidy plan essentially involves a redistribution of income, and this becomes a question of how much income will shift from the tax-payer to the farmer...
...triumphs and tragedies of later years are still unforeseeable. Only the absorbing, solitary hour of the British crisis is present-the decisive hour in which the past must be redeemed and the future secured. It was to this decisive moment that Churchill called upon the people of Britain to respond "and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will say: 'This was their finest hour...
...Woodworth. There is probably no more challenging work in all musical literature than the B Minor Mass, and enormous ambition and perseverance are required to undertake it at all. In addition, Woodworth's philosophy of Bach is almost the antithesis of Koussevitzky's yet he trained the Chorus to respond with complete accuracy to the Conductor's direction. This achievement is even more remarkable when you realize that Woodworth had to substitute for Koussevitzky in the only complete rehearsal with the Orchestra...