Word: astir
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Already, last week, the chemistry world was astir with impending events. Delegations from nine European countries, from Japan and South America, poured in. Leading his French colleagues was Chemist Paul Sabatier, Nobel prizeman in 1912, dean of the science faculty at Toulouse University. The senior chemists of many another famed university were expected...
...undergraduate madness in shifting courses, the rival college, and many other particular elements of life in Cambridge are made fun of so that anyone could understand the reasons. Yet like Goldsmith's "History of England", this Lampoon does "no harm to nobody." It simply keeps the College healthily astir and confronts it with a modest image of itself at the present moment...
...Andelys, 60 miles down the Seine from Paris, a school of impressionistic art has thrived for nearly 100 years under such masters as Claude Monet, Pisarro and Cezanne. Once a year the village is astir with an exhibition which students hold in Balzac's old home...