Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German possession of Alsace and Lorraine, which kept the French from pouring through the Lorraine Gateway and the Belfort gap. In 1870, when the French owned the border provinces, the stupidity of Marshal Bazaine, who shut himself up in the fortress of Metz and refused to stir, deprived France of the opportunity to push into the South German Basin...
Nope. Mr. Klein's act would never do. The Hobby Lobby has some 5 million listeners. If even a hundred of them corked off, without Mr. Klein in the living room to wake them up, it could make a mightier stir than the Orson Welles-invoked invasion from Mars. Why, some of the audience might even sleep through the commercial ! No sir! Thanks awfully, though...
...want to stir up any bitter feeling about foreign nations lying to the west of us, but I do say that I would regret to see further aggression on the part of a nation all of whose admirals and generals seem to look precisely like Roy W. Howard...
Commercial broadcasters, who use only amplitude-modulating transmitters, have so far only nibbled at the Armstrong system. But the high-fidelity, interference-free programs from Alpine have created such a stir that General Electric Co. (licensed by Armstrong) started to make receiving sets which could be switched from commercial reception to frequency modulation. Last week these were put on sale in Newark, and this week they will be launched in New York. Price: $75 to $225. Stromberg-Carlson is also preparing to put sets on sale. Besides Alpine, two other frequency-modulating broadcasting stations (at Paxton, Mass, and Hartford, Conn...
...Nationalists. Last week 69-year-old Professor Besteiro stood tall and straight before a tribunal of three generals, one colonel and three lieutenant colonels while a court clerk read the long list of charges against him: he was a Socialist and had devoted his life to teaching doctrines that stir up the masses; he had done nothing to prevent the execution of conservatives by Madrid extremists; he was a member of a party that had been responsible for the deaths of Franco supporters...