Word: awakener
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...system," it harangued, "creates class differences, enables the few to hoard wealth, causes poverty and unemployment, and . . . seriously restricts the national budget so that even the most vital needs of national defense are not attainable. ... It is desirable for the people to abandon the selfish, individualistic economic sense, to awaken to moral principles and to hasten to establish an economy embodying the Empire's ideals [i. e., a military dictatorship]. The military . . . would cultivate the spirit of personal sacrifice in which the country's welfare alone counts, while ruling out extreme internationalism and individualism...
German 5 is rather dull and monotonous in presentation. Daily throughout the year the student prepares about eight pages of his book and translates only a few words in class. The alert can determine exactly when they are to be called on, thus making it quite unnecessary to awaken for more than ten minutes of each class...
...officer to investigate the fire. He called the crew to stations. They responded in five minutes. He had the engines slowed down, then brought the ship about so that the wind was on his quarter. He ordered stewards to go through the corridors banging on pots and pans to awaken passengers, get them into the boats. When the fire passed beyond control, Captain Warms and his bridge force leaped down on the forecastle head, stayed there until taken off at noon...
...have other lofty New Testament hymns such as the 'Magnificat' and the 'Gloria in Excelsis' sung by the entire congregation after some training. . . . The aim is not entertainment but worship: to teach hymns in which men hear the voice of the Eternal; hymns that awaken the spirit of 'wonder, love and praise'; that . . . drive out weak, shoddy, self-centered songs that too often are mere piffle...
...Join Mr. A. C. B. in the query, "Why? ? ? ? Why the bell?" Is it to awaken certain employees? Isn't the college aware that we have such things as alarm-clocks; that they can be had for as little as sixty-nine cents? Aren't the Powers Above aware that this nuisance is deleterious to the health? In my own case, I get one less hour of sleep each night. Think, too, of the psychological effect. It's like having a cannon go off outside your window! It usually spoils my whole morning, and I am sure...