Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brittle", that at any moment all Europe may break up in a configuration, where excesses worse than those of the Reign of Terror may sweep away our so-called modern civilization. Every effort to hold together through deeds of love and service, every attempt to re-awaken and stir up in Europe feelings of brotherliness and kindness, is to help build the Kingdom...
...There is another significant feature in the political situation. Russia has a longer contiguous boundary with China than with any other country, and Bolshevik agents are making every effort to stir up the people. How far they have been successful cannot yet be judged because whatever movement there may be is still underground. The men who are running the government, however, are rather fearful for the immediate outcome...
There is much to stir the imagination in the picture of an angry, writhing, poisonous snake pinned firmly to the operating table in the reptile house at the Zoo, and encouraged by a scientist to strike at a bit of parchment covering a glass retainer. Instead of destroying, the snake is thus enlisted in the work of saving human life...
...possible for every graduate to stir the patriotism of a nation or single-handed to break down barriers of local prejudice and intolerance, but it is possible for every one to walk humbly in the path where trod with giant's step. Edward Everett Hale...
After all Class Day is Class Day and the bands play just as well under cover as if they were enthroned in the fabricated bandstands which clutter the Yard. Then, too, the irony of celebrating in Sever 11 or the New Lecture Hall cannot fail to stir some feelings within him. It has rained so much in Cambridge during the last four years that a bit of dampness to no surprise anyway, and gives the family its eagerly awaited opportunity to see what Harvard is really like, without the artificiality of white-wash. The happiest thought...