Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unbalanced budget usually begins to stir President Hoover into alarmed action about half way through each session of Congress. Last week astute United Pressmen at the White House thought they saw the customary signs, forecast one more special message to Congress in which the President would urge an evening up of income and outgo without making specific recommendations on how this was to be accomplished. The Associated Press accepted a routine denial by the White House Secretariat that any such message was contemplated...
...onions and then a layer of potatoes, salting and peppering each layer. Over all pour the mock turtle soup and enough water to cover. Measure liquid used. Cover closely and cook in a slow oven of 350° F. for two hours. For every cupful of liquid used stir in one tbsp. flour mixed in an equal amount of cold water. Cook 15 min. longer. A baking powder biscuit crust may be put on the casserole after the thickening is added. If this is done, raise the temperature to 450° F. for about 15 min. to bake the crust...
Slowly, slowly our blood pressure is approaching a sane and healthy mean, as deflation progresses. There is still a long way to go. But the biggest part of that way will be covered when people,--the ordinary workers and business people of our blind nation stir in their philosophy of economic complacency which the bitterest physical discomfort does not seem to shake, and realize that the prosperity, so-called, of the past decade was a mushroom growing out of a rotten stump. And only when they realize that the stump must be brought level with the earth can the lasting...
...persuade as many boys as possible to be participants in athletics, instead of spectators. Experience at Cambridge shows that while the sub-varsity groups are typically indifferent about practice, they are keen on playing in real games. And waving a blue sweater in their faces is enough to stir the crimson blood in every mother's son of them! The Boston Herald
...negligent, even slovenly, in his dress." He was Harvard's first (1806-09) Boylston Professor of Rhetoric & Oratory, the chair so long held by Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland who last month was ordered out of ancient Hollis Hall by his physician (TIME, Sept. 12). Like "Copey," he could stir youth with his public readings; like "Copey" he was crotchety and cantankerous on the platform. Only President's son to become President himself, he was even less popular than his father had been. Elected in spite of a popular majority against him, he owed his office to a close...