Word: stirrings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...come not from forgetting its public, but from writing for that public at its best. The same holds true of many another excellent magazine, and the doctrine is a sound one for college periodicals to follow. Do your utmost to find subjects the reasonable treatment of which will stir the thought of your readers and provoke discussion; have those subjects treated without sensationalism, but ably and vigorously; and if you succeed in performing this difficult task you will have not only a more readable magazine, but also, I will wager, one with more literary vitality than most college periodicals...
...have it that he can write. Will an essay on the technique of modern football stir even languidly the reader of the Advocate whom the teaching of literature at Harvard keeps awake of nights? Again perhaps . . . but that is another question...
...workability and the worth of educating its members. It consists of thousands of men and women who work in hundreds of small shops and are drawn together only because of their union. For them it is not primarily, as the public so often thinks, an organization created to stir up agitations and beguile the world. It serves its members in many ways. Special arrangements are made with theatres for reduced admissions; concerts and social affairs of all kinds are included in the entertainment program. But, best of all, the Union has established in New York seven "unity centers," where...
Congress will decide between these two extremes. If the Secretary is to secure his enormous naval appropriation, he must explain why he would stir up all this preparation when the war is over and our only two rivals on the sea, Great Britain and Japan, have already signified their willingness to work towards disarmament if this country follows suit. Otherwise Congress is likely to agree with Senator Borah that the United States is tired of disarmament talk; it wants action and if economy comes with it, so much the better. We must not overlook the greatest possible chance to achieve...
...much lesser degree. There are few who go out for minor sports to win the insignia as an honor to be worn. The incentive is more in the abstract honor of being on the team and in getting the exercise. The privileges of a Minor Sport Club would never stir the ordinary student to heights of energy and athletic activity. At first the idea seems attractive but upon analysis it really appears quite unnecessary...