Word: awakener
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...faculty, yet including subjects of broader interest than specialized research, it can have a very great part to play in maintaining that note of progressive liberality which Harvard so ably sounded at the Tercentenary. As edition of American classics, an anthology or even a Companion to American Verse would awaken interest immensely in both the American classics and the University press itself...
...somewhat astringent, mood when last month he offered his skeptical impressions of the U. S. and the U. S. S. R. in Travels in Two Democracies. For most of his long (412 pages) Two Worlds, Lester Cohen also adopts the tired tone of his predecessors, finding little to awaken his enthusiasm, much to depress him in his glimpses of poverty in many lands. Bright exception to his historic pessimism is his excitement about the Soviet Union...
...that she had struggled for many years to make women "money conscious." without much success until her radio talks in 1934. Then, she said, some of her followers in Utica, N. Y. invited her to address a mass meeting. Founded therefrom was Women Investors in America, Inc., pledged to awaken women's minds to finance (TIME, May 27, 1935). A W.I.A. survey had shown that women controlled 80% of U. S. life insurance, 65% of savings accounts, 48% of railroad securities, 44% of utility stocks, 40% of real estate. Director Curtis adopted as the organization's slogan...
Little white flowers will never awaken...
...also a year when all Americans who believe in the possibilities of the human mind for further progress, happiness and common benefit should stand firm and resist the forces of retrogression. President Conant ended his address--one of the best he has yet made--with a declaration which should awaken a virile response both inside and outside of the Harvard brotherhood. --The Boston Herald