Word: bestirs
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...primarily for Chinese. It consists of 1,000 characters (words) most commonly used by plain people, selected from the 40,000-odd available characters. It can be learned in 96 hours from four little books. Chinese coolies and peasants (85% of the population) now need only bestir themselves a bit to become literate. Jimmy Yen sees to it that they stir increasingly...
...only in London did M.O.I. bestir itself. In the U.S. the British information services got a new Director-General. He was Sir Gerald Campbell, unofficious, efficient No. 2 British diplomat in the U.S. Like Beaverbrook, at his first press conference in Manhattan he told newsmen to fire away...
...fire-hardened men who turned the tide at Gettysburg; whose undergraduates and graduates when out by thousands in 1917 saying, in the words of President Lowell's Baccalaureate Sermon to our class, "There is a sound of a going in the tops of the trees, and we must bestir ourselves ... believing that it is a call...
...time was coming, if it were not already at hand, for Benito Mussolini to nudge his titular partner's elbow with proffered aid (see p. 31). If the war continued at its last week's pace and direction, he might have to bestir himself in order to give his partnership any appearance of usefulness or sincerity...
...pastoral gave point to a gentle scolding which Pope Pius XII delivered, on the same day, to all the parish priests of Rome-whose bishop he is. Speaking of "our times, in which religious ignorance is profound and full of peril," the Holy Father told his priests to bestir themselves, pay less attention to administrative duties, more to preaching. Said he: "Preach with simplicity, aiming at that practical sense which comes to the mind and guides the spirit. It is not scintillating and learned fluency that conquers souls, especially today, but rather the word of conviction that comes from...