Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those who have been thus innocently deluded by the wiles of sport correspondents now herald with enthusiasm the opening of the hockey season tonight. The publication of starting lineups has already caused a stir; last minute changes may yet augment the intensity of the situation, Because they look for competent criticism of the very subjects which are on the tips of their tongues, athletic enthusiasts again find in the newspapers renewed satisfaction. Although the headlines are not as incongruously conspicuous as those of three weeks ago the articles are none the less convincing in the dearth of copy sextet supplants...
...from their college to join the students from other lands on the battlefields...Well., the job had to be done anyhow, just as, 15 or 20 years before, Lady War wick's portrait had to be got through with. You can always count on a line of soldiers to stir people; a good fierce American eagle would be a useful 'property', as the theatre chape call it, and 'Our Old Flag,' from centre-stage, in the clarion tones of a Fourth of July speech, or an election rally, or of the columns of the 'Congressional Record,' would be certain...
...Morgan County. The men had in common an intent, secretive, yet futile look on their faces. They were diamond hunters. Every day they waded Indiana's creeks and panned the gravel left there long ago by glaciers. Frequently they found grains of gold; rarely, yet often enough to stir hope, they found a small diamond. Because similar diamonds have been found in Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin, in the terminal moraines of old glaciers, geologists figure that they were scuffed out of a parent field somewhere south or southwest of James Bay, the teat-like extension of Hudson Bay. That...
...conjunction with the arrival of the American Opera Company in Boston on Monday, Professor E. B. Hill '94 of the Department of Music has arranged to have either the conductor or manager speak at Harvard to stir up interest among the students. The talk will be given in Paine Hall on Monday at 1.30 O'clock...
...spirit was lively, vibrant, domineering. Such are qualities religious chiefs since Mohammed have had. They stir their crowds; they tingle their emotions; they daze their thoughts; they get. adulation and money. Joseph Smith and Brigham Young did that with the Mormons, John and Charles Wesley with the Methodists, Moody and Sankey with the evangelicals, Mrs. Eddy with the Christian Scientists. Judge Joseph Frederick Rutherford is doing likewise with the International Bible Students, Mrs. Annie Besant with the Theosophists, Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson with the Four Square Gospellers. Theirs have been as much a profession of new business as a profession...