Word: responded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock today in the hallway of the Harvard College Library. The Memorial will be presented to the President and Fellows of Harvard College by Jerome D. Green '96, on behalf of the group of friends of Professor Coolidge who have contributed to make this gift. President Lowell will respond on behalf of the University...
Last week he fractured presidential tradition by having a telephone placed at his elbow. All other Presidents had gone to an adjoining room to telephone, which they rarely did. Now President Hoover calls up his Cabinet members who respond with a brisk "Yes, Mr. President." By this method they are saved time-wasting journeys to the White House...
Royal was the welcome extended to Royal Belgians last week in Manhattan. Prince Albert de Ligne and his Ambassadorial staff met them at the pier, took them to City Hall where Mayor James J. Walker had grateful remarks ready for all Belgium. Royally did it respond at its concert for the benefit of the Reconstruction Hospital, playing symphonic music according to the arrangements of Leader Arthur Prevost with skill and spirit well calculated to rival the bands of John Philip Sousa and the U.S. Marines, or even the historic German Band which attended Chicago's World's Fair...
...this request even the most friendly could not respond, for while the letter was on its way, the choleric, anti-U.S. weekly Britannia (TIME, Nov. 5) had failed under the extravagant editorship of Novelist Gilbert ("Swankau") Frankau and was about to lose its identity in a merger with England's popular Eve, according to statements issued by wealthy, wiry William Harrison, owner of both publications and some 25 other periodicals...
Whether snakes respond instinctively to the charmer's whines and whistles is still an unsettled problem in animal psychology. Snakes have little brain and much spine. They are quick to respond to stimuli, and perhaps react directly to seductive vibrations. More probably their swaying-it is no dance-is a conditioned reflex. Charmers feed their snakes well, in India with milk, flour balls and meat (frogs). And it is doubtless with mounting hope of meals that snakes raise themselves to the fakir's minor music. Charmers who have tried their art in U. S. zoos and serpentaria have...