Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unbeatable by himself but, if a third party of disgruntled Leftwingers under Senator Long or someone like him should enter the field, the Republican nominee might have a bare chance to slip through to success. Some such idea was definitely in the air last week as Republicans began to stir out of their long lethargy and behave like Presidential candidates. Some stirrings...
...make the investor believe that the efforts of government to protect him are designed to defraud him. I have seen much of the propaganda . . . to exploit the most far-fetched and fallacious fears . . . enough to be as unimpressed by it as I was by the similar effort to stir up the country against the Securities Exchange bill last spring...
Japanese explain General Kenji Doihara to Occidentals as "our Lawrence of Manchuria." It was perfectly all right, they say, for Great Britain to detach Arabia from Turkey during the War by sending Colonel T. E. "Lawrence of Arabia" to stir up the tribes. Therefore has not General Doihara's work in Manchuria, Japanese ask, been equally all right...
...belts in Passaic, hot water bottles in Providence. Tires are the principal product, but its salesmen will accept orders for engravers' gum and fruit jar rubbers. It has so many subsidiaries that most statistical services do not bother to list them all. Last week there was hardly a stir when U. S. Rubber announced that it had dropped 16 subsidiaries last year, was preparing to drop 15 more, bringing the total down to 31. Simultaneously President Francis Breese Davis Jr. announced earnings for the year of $888,000 against $77,000 in 1933. Its deficit account...
...have a chance to be the greatest American writer. . . . In fact I don't see why he should not be one of the greatest world writers." No backscratcher, in Of Time and the River Author Wolfe replies: "A book like Main Street, which made such a stir, is like Main Street...