Word: responding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only when the library seeks actively to entice undergraduates with its charms as well as with its contents will they as actively respond. Only then can it exert a continual, positive influence in support of scholarship. And only when the Book Center exists can Justin Winsor's philosophy really bear fruit...
...Herr Hitler would delay giving the command to start firing on a big scale until President Roosevelt could indicate his willingness to mediate. Otherwise, said Dr. Dietrich, there would ensue the "most gruesome blood bath in history." In Washington President Roosevelt let it be known that he would not respond to any such roundabout, undiplomatic suggestion...
This insufficiency was not a question of scale, but the fact that Journey's End is a study of the English public-school code in wartime rather than of war itself. Its middle-aged schoolmaster Osborne, its eager schoolboy Raleigh respond to duty mindlessly, in a series of conditioned reflexes; they go to their deaths as "correctly" as to a dinner party. Only the chief character, Captain Stanhope (admirably played last week, as ten years ago, by Colin Keith-Johnston), jangled and jittery after three years of war, with horror gnawing away at habit, becomes a creature of conflict...
Social behavior in fish, Dr. Noble believes, depends on their forebrains. When the forebrains of ordinary, sociable minnows are removed, the fish leave school, become hermits. Strangely enough, "such fish may seem in other respects more effective organisms than fish with intact brains. [They] . . . respond to food more quickly ... exhibit much greater vigor in flight reactions, exhibit less caution. . . . The operation seems to improve their personalities, but their social relations are completely lost." Fishman Noble also noted that the sex glands of partially de-brained fish degenerate and they lose interest in breeding. When pituitary hormones are injected the fish...
Over a hundred Yearlings respond each year to football coach Skip Stahley's "Come one, come all" invitation. After a few days of conditioning and drilling in fundamentals beneath the warm gun on Soldiers Field, the first squad is selected, the remainder being shunted into Clark Hodder's experienced bands. The first squad's schedule includes top-notch prep-school elevens and several college first-year teams...