Word: responded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through football season as a line coach. Back home in Cincinnati, he teamed up with his elder brother Robert Alphonso in the practice of law. Meanwhile his family grew to two sons, five daughters. Busy as he was with the law, Charlie Taft was never too busy to respond to a call for help from practical Christian enterprises. This able, potent, bright-faced member of one of Cincinnati's great families served the Episcopal Church, the Y. M. C. A., the Community Chest, the Colored Industrial School, the Widows' & Old Men's Home with superhuman energy...
...With such] forceful stimulation as this tragedy one's mental processes respond rapidly. I had given up all hope of recovery. I sensed the situation of snowy waters, consequent cramps, the rugged rocks which I at that moment was bumping, the bottomless whirlpool, the 'hellespontiac' current of the waters and the boulders against which my head would surely be dashed. . . . Just then the spray lifted my glasses off my nose, thank goodness, for then at least my eyes would have a chance to hold the pennies to pay Charon. . . . [Then I learned] that St. Peter had rejected...
...Impertinence, etc." To this "irresistibly attractive" spiel, the British Foreign Office did not respond like a German election crowd. It looked in vain for one "positive" amelioration of the fact that after all Hitler had violated two international treaties when his soldiers marched into the Rhineland. Foreign Secretary Eden read the document's 3,000 words through carefully, listened to Ambassador von Ribbentrop's further remarks and strode to No. 10 Downing Street where waited the British Cabinet...
Deprive a man of food for three days and he will respond biologically. Then give him a chance to steal a loaf of bread and he will respond culturally. But where biology stops and culture begins is a question over which sociologists, psychologists and anthropologists have quarreled long & loud. In essence their dispute is the ancient one of Nature v. Nurture, of Instinct v. Conditioning, of Heredity v. Environment. Dr. Gordon Willard Allport of Harvard feels that there have been too few concrete demonstrations of how much truth there is on each side. Such a demonstration he published last week...
...Association was fresh from the rich New York City suburb of Bronxville, where he superintended a model school system operating at an annual cost of $233 per student. His appointment as Director of Indian Education indicated a new attempt to develop some sort of education to which Indians will respond. When the U. S. Government first turned from shooting Indians to educating them, it hoped to accomplish their gradual assimilation in white communities. In 1879 General Richard Henry Pratt (who once proposed apportioning the Indians, like so many marbles, nine to each county in the U. S.) founded Carlisle School...