Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...with concern that the CRIMSON notes the heralded appearance of a second parody next Monday. Wednesday's effort was cleaver and of momentary interest; it created more of a stir in Cambridge that almost any other event in the memory of the present college generation; but its purposes were ill defined and even sinister...
...crushed by the tax-collector's demands, would not stand any increase in taxation, it gladly buys bonds. There is no better stimulus than a Liberty Loan campaign for arousing patriotic spirit and putting the whole nation behind the wheel of war. Bonds have their serious limitations, but they stir the popular imagination...
...sooner we can weed out this element the sooner we can begin real fighting. The Allies are counting on our guns, our shells and our men to win this war; we have the men, but without arms they are useless. The Lewis gun scandal was apparently not sufficient to stir our Ordnance heads; if the present trouble does not wake them from their coma there ought to be a general house-cleaning in the War Department...
Brewer Eddy, traveling secretary for the Y. M. C. A., addressed the Freshmen in the Smith Hall Common Room last evening with a vivid talk on war conditions in Europe. He was introduced by A. Beane '11, who characterized the speaker as one of the ablest men "to stir an audience on a war topic" he had ever heard...
...them we see, though as through a glass darkly, the prophecy of what we will some time be. Darkly, for it is apparent to all that while we shall attain to the success of the most successful, we shall never equal the mediocrity of those who have failed to stir the world. We shall never grow bald-headed or over-weight as some graduates do, or wear nose-glasses and starched collars, or carry umbrellas...