Word: stirrings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since recent events have given those hostile papers which delight to stir up the dregs of the public, a splendid chance to roil the waters. It seems poor policy to find fault with a few admonitions from an elder friend. The Transcript is the last of all Boston papers whose words merit caustic reception at Harvard. Even if its editorial had a slightly paternal lingo, the intent was kindly. Harvard has enough ill-wishers already without carping at its friends. Frederick deW Pinaree...
...Then the hours, the final hours, that shall make incandescent this choral virtue, these songful freedoms, that musical understanding, such stir and mood already a-beat and aglow. Dr. Davison began them; Mr. Koussevitsky finished them. The audience sat in away and thrall to the power and the beauty so engendered...
...change in the N. C. Bank rate was noted all over the world, but particularly in London, where it probably caused more stir than in Manhattan itself. If sterling is going to be restored to and maintained upon a gold basis, it is necessary that Manhattan moneyrates remain well below those at London, in order to attract gold to Britain rather than to repel it. When the news of the change arrived in London, the Bank of England at once began to purchase bills in the open market, with the result that market-money rates rose. London financial writers...
...question of the naval base at Singapore was again raised. Premier Baldwin created a stir by declaring that responsible Japanese opinion was not opposed to the construction of the base as had often been claimed...
...significance of the famine, which William T. Cosgrove, President of the Free State Cabinet, called "much exaggerated," and which Eamon De Valera, Anglophobe Republican leader, declared was an "English press scare," is to be found in the fact that hungry men stir the most dangerous political discontent...