Word: responding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...style method of testing animals' eyesight is to train them to respond to certain visual stimuli. This is laborious, and in the case of some refractory creatures, such as snakes, frogs and Gila monsters, virtually impossible. At the University of Rochester a promising, extravagantly polite young scientist named John Warkentin is investigating animal eyesight with a more efficient technique which requires no training, last week made public some of his findings...
Uses. Sulfanilamide has cured septicemia, erysipelas, meningitis, scarlet fever, otitismedia (earinflammation). It has cured some cases of tonsillitis, peritonitis, osteomyelitis. It has cured gonorrhea in people who have been infected for some time, but "first infections . . respond poorly if at all." It is a good antiseptic against infections of the kidneys and bladder...
...famed film critics, Oxonian Greene, a devout Catholic, had found Shirley's acting offensive, and offensively intimated that it appealed to man's baser sex instincts. "She wore trousers," he wrote, "with the mature suggestiveness of a Dietrich. . . . Her admirers-middle-aged men and clergymen-respond to her dubious coquetry . . . agile studio eyes . . . dimpled depravity...
...Northern man at your cover of Jan. 24. ... I am not sure of my figures, but anyone who has been south of the Mason & Dixon line can realize the overwhelming predominance of the black population and the necessity of having some form of law to which they will respond...
...them to set in motion this spring an organization that will give the Class of 1942 the ground works for further development. If one or two boys were chosen from each Hall to hunt out all those interested, the chances are that the rest of the Freshman class would respond, and an invaluable Freshman institution might be started...