Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...planning a flight this year. Miss Earhart makes a gratifying income by writing on flying and appearing at aviation shows. Lady Heath also appears professionally at the shows. Recently she started a concern to import planes. Miss Nichols, rich, is now flying about the U. S. to stir interest in aviation country clubs...
...assertion that Belgium stands committed to mobilize a minimum of 600,000 men, and France a minimum of 1,200,000 for immediate joint action to repel aggression against either state by Germany, Italy or Spain. Such an agreement-declared by Dagblad to run for 25 years-might indeed stir profound uneasiness. But worse still, according to Dagblad, the General Staffs of France and Belgium plan to seize the offensive, in any future war with Germany, by advancing their troops across the Dutch province of Limburg. Thus Limburg would be "violated," as was Belgium...
...playwright's Katerina is a wife unjustly suspected at the start. Her husband attempts to kill her because of his belief that she is unfaithful. The shots stir in her a spirit of rebellion which sends her out, in spite of a reconciliation, to defy him. In the playwright's mind she sinks lower and lower. That, however, is against a background of Victorian moral standards. What would happen to Katerina in real life in 1929 would make an entirely different play. Andreyev deals with the Russia of before the War. That Russia is gone, so much...
...Come, stir your souls with our ringing call...
...usual spring spectacle of Seniors meeting requirements and receiving degrees will be enlivened this year by the working out for the first time of an experiment far-reaching in its implications which, should it prove successful, may stir some witnesses to emulation. Honors candidates studying under the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature will complete, by handing in a thesis and submitting to a brief oral examination, the program adopted last year by the Committee which released them from written divisional tests in their field after Junior year...