Word: reactional
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There is a tendency to a sharp reaction in the New York stock market...
...student is usually so much of a radical intellectually that the natural conservatism of his nature must find some expression in conforming to what he considers the time-honored traditions of college and of class life. It is undoubtedly true that this same traditional class spirit, notwithstanding the emphatic reaction that seems to be going on at present in this country, is steadily losing ground and growing less and less important as a factor of college life. And this is not to be regretted; for, in proportion as the narrower spirit of class declines, a broader university spirit springs...
...done no sure work or presented any original thought which gives him any just claim upon us. The implied comparison of case with the treatment accorded such poets as Keats by the public is not only silly, it is presumptuous. And although we believe there is a reaction setting in in public sentiment against such an extreme of ridicule as has previously been showered upon him, and however much one may feel disposed to share in this reaction, no impartial judge can go to the extent of encouraging this young poet from London in his course in the face...
...jingling nurseryrhyme, and was vexed because there was one note which I could not catch. I thought of the axe, and tried to imagine the blood spurting out over it. But I discovered that I was endeavoring to pun upon the word. I was feeling particularly well pleased with "reaction," when my thoughts took another turn, and I began to wonder why it was that I was able to think at all. Or was it that this small power of speculation still clung to the head, even when severed from the trunk; that the ghosts, as it were, of former...
...morbid desire for excitement during those four years. She saves a classmate (male, of course) from drowning, rides a wild horse, is almost killed, like Horace, by the falling branch of a tree, and generally had her nerves strung to so high a pitch of excitement that if a reaction took place after graduation, the consequences must have been dreadful indeed. Likewise did she have her share of other wooing than that of the Muses, and did not take an entirely passive part in the amusement, as is sufficiently shown by the following invitation to a shooting expedition, in which...