Word: stirrings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...principle object of the Union's activities this fall will be to stir up interest in the coming political campaign. On election night especially a busy program has been arranged. Open house will be held at the Harvard Union and a special wire has been strung to enable listeners to secure the election results. Neal O'Hara '15, of the Boston Herald, has promised his services as announcer. At 12 o'clock pictures of the Tunney-Heeney fight will be shown and refreshments are to be served...
...return from West Africa in 1734. He wrote: "The Sleepy Distemper (common among the Negroes) gives no other previous Notice, than a want of Appetite two or three days before; their sleeps are sound, and Sense and Feeling very little; for pulling,drubbing or whipping will scarce stir up Sense and Power enough to move; and the Moment you cease beating the smart is forgot, and down they fall again into a state of Insensibility, drivling constantly from the Mouth as if in deep salivation; breathe slowly, but not unequally nor snort. Young people are more subject to it than...
...business; but the United States will not be ruled forever by the men who have money. The time may be not yet, but the day will come when those who exploit the people shall no longer deceive them, and when democracy shall once again be a principle to stir the world. . . . Democracy is more than a catchword and more than an ideal; it is a necessity for the preservation of civilization...
...most notable performers at the festival were old men, peasants who had endured the rigors of more than 60 Canadian winters and who, this year as in every other, felt quickened to jubilance by the steady stir of the spring wind...
...five stores in the county of Cumberland. Although North Carolina and Maryland courts have declared their laws unconstitutional, although South Carolina has made no attempt to enforce hers, although Georgia courts have granted a temporary injunction restraining enforcement-the passage of such laws has caused chain store operators to stir themselves defensively...