Word: responded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other organizations to print and say whatever they wish and, within certain minimal boundaries, do whatever they wish is found at few other colleges. It forces upon the Harvard undergraduate a degree of maturity demanded of few of his fellows at schools across the country, and most undergraduates respond admirably...
...admission would be an unhealthy move. The present requirements are in line with those of many universities; instituting a math requirement would assume that Harvard's influence in elevating high-school standards is quite significant. Such an assumption does not seem well-grounded; for the schools which would respond by directing their college prospects to take the courses Harvard demands are probably those schools who now teach the most mathematics anyway. But the rural, Western and Southern schools which offer only a curricular minimum are unlikely to change to meet Harvard's demands. If Harvard should impose a math requirement...
...split Arab brotherhood. The man who only last month insisted that there was no connection between the "friendly" Soviet Union and the local Communist troublemakers of Syria and Egypt now proclaimed from his Damascus balcony that "the Communist Party works for foreigners. Nobody in the Arab world will respond to them because they are agents of a foreign power." Next day, under the sting of Kassem's accusations of conspiracy, Nasser dropped all pretense of soldierly comradeship with Kassem and attacked him in person as a man who fights against Arab unity. Punning on Kassem's name, which...
...about roll call, her chaotic classroom-are only surface disabilities. Absorbed in the agony of infant minds expanding under pressure, she is less interested in taming her Maoris than in finding the key to these hearts as virgin as her body. She becomes convinced that the words the youngsters respond to are not those in the pap-filled children's books but the ones drawn from fear and sex-from the vital reservoirs of life. Kiss, ghost, butcher, police, fight, jail-shown such words, the most stubborn of the nonlearners read and write...
...recipient, in his Rumford Medal Lecture, spoke on the evolution of the capacity of plants and animals to respond to light cues. Wald described the responses in terms of molecular or chemical mechanisms...