Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...common knowledge that the sluggish Anglo-Russian Conference (TiME, Apr. 28 et seq.) would one day be quickened into action and stir the world with "well, well's," or "I told you so's." First, news came that the negotiations had failed. The world said: "I told you so." Then Ramsay said: "This will never do." An understanding was patched up. The world said: "Well, well...
...American world fliers were to start on the last lap of their journey around the earth's crust. On that day the fog curled its haunches and lay down like a great gray beast from the Orkney Islands to Iceland. For two days, it did not stir. The fliers waited; all was ready. They had made the brief trip from Brough to Kirkwall easily, with a tall wind following them; in Kirkwall the engines had been tuned for the last time, final preparations had been made, even to giving each plane a carrier pigeon. The patrol...
...ever heard of him is merely a silent indication of his character. He works quietly, despises the methods and noise of the demagogue, is exceedingly simple and direct in all his movements. "He is the kind of man who, however violently one may disagree with him, does not stir personal animosity. He never ridicules, never denounces, never even flares up. He seems as incapable of deep hate as of deep love and is in turn neither loved nor hated as Trotzky is.... He never loses his head nor gets in a fit of panic, never fools himself by magnifying irritating...
...People would rather see Harry Thaw than President Coolidge, and the newspapers with their big headlines constantly stir their readers to unhealthy states of mind...
...mean by that, Proselyting, but merely telling to them the merits of the college, and what they will gain by coming here. We do not want athletic parasites, but we want more men rooting for Harvard. We have bent over backwards to avoid proselyting, but we can at least stir up interest...