Word: stirrings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through Belgium the line followed the route of the original German advance, through Namur and Liege; from the train war here, but the very names of the town stir the imagination...
...strange beauty and a tragic terror in the familiar lives of men and women in our workaday world. This might be called strong tendencies towards the democratic in literature. So strong is this tendency that I doubt whether, if Milton were living now, he would be able to stir up interest in his great epics concerning lost paradise at the beginning of the world. We seem to be inclined to hear about the destitute children in their lost paradise down on Hanover street...
...British Government is experimenting with a system of government controlled largely by Indians in a final attempt to quiet the discontent which had arisen with British rule, while the Extremist Party is working more strenuously than ever before to stir up the people to a revolution which will wipe out British rule entirely. The outcome is in the balance, and both sides are striving to make it tip their...
...methods used by the Extremist party to stir up discontent have so far been combaited successfully, but they grow more far-reaching and insidious as the people accept their new system of government. A boycott of the representative councils was the first of their attempts to create trouble. The Extremists tried to prevent the formation of the councils by deceiving or terrorizing both the voters and the nominees. "In my own province of Patna," said Professor Horne, "it was extremely hard to get the men to register because they feared they were subjecting themselves to a greater taxation." Nevertheless...
...surely will after this one," will be their perfectly logical reasoning. Too many slackers and cowardly "conscientious objectors" have been freed in the last year to wit: William Haywood, the I. W. W. leader, who was freed last year and who is now doing his best to stir up trouble against the Government...