Word: stirrings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dawn the U. S. cruiser Memphis was steaming up the Potomac River. Soon people in Washington began to stir-in the temporary White House, President and Mrs. Coolidge, and Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh were arising. As the sun grew brighter and hotter, the tempo of the capital approached allegro. One hundred Army and Navy airplanes darted above and below and around the dirigible Los Angeles, like sharks baiting a whale. The guns of the presidential yacht Mayflower boomed a salute. Factory whistles shrieked. Nautical tunes bounded over the waters of the Potomac. The Memphis docked at the Navy Yard...
...early to predict any results to come out of the Burrus survey. The law on diminishing utility seems to work in the world of athletic panaceas and to date this report which parallels in some ways the plan proposed recently by President Hopkins of Dartmouth, has failed to stir up the looked for storm of discussion. And yet the suggestions are sound, the changes practical in the extreme. Now that the excitement and novelty of the first cries for athletic reform in the colleges has died down, the general attitude seems to be one of mild approval in theory...
Last week, while the universities beat torn toms to stir up their alumni, mildly, preciously intellectual Vanity Fair and the brusque, factitious American Mercury, told what lacks and is wrong in U. S. higher education...
Other news, equally vague, came out of the U. S. Department of State last week. The investigation of charges that forged documents had been used to stir up hostility between the U. S. and Mexico (TIME, April 11) led to the discovery of 300 stolen Department of State papers. These were said to have been sold by a U. S. employe to President Calles of Mexico. The Department of State hushed up the incident; announced that the leak had been found, that President Calles had returned the documents, that Mexico and the U. S. understood each other. Several...
From Dr. Butler: "Let me tell you in a moment why I am moved to stir up everywhere and always the question of the attempt to enforce compulsory total abstinence by constitutional amendment...