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Word: stirs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interesting new departures in representative government, but which, for various reasons, has not yet been put into full operation. It exists, but the present government has not been able to operate in its true spirit. Now comes the possibility that the Ruhr problem, as viewed by the Germans, will stir the people sufficiently to oust the present time-serving government and put into effective operation the Constitution as intended by those who brought it into existence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A CHANCE FOR A CHANGE | 3/10/1923 | See Source »

African wood carvings that have been making such a stir in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gods of the Congo | 3/10/1923 | See Source »

...view. This is the letter to Robert Moras Love it from Maude Radford Warren giving some details of the heroie death of the former's son. In these days, even five years after the war, it is a remarkable bit of writing, narrative or any other kind, which can stir the average war-jaded mind, and this is exactly what the letter with its simplicity and almost matter-of-factness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 3/9/1923 | See Source »

...next place it isn't of the South. To call an I. W. W.'s interpretation of American life literature of America is rather more than a misnomen. A careful study of the circumstances which surrounded the issue of the book shows that its sole purpose was to stir up race and class hatred just the same as some organizations do today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 3/3/1923 | See Source »

...STORY.-The stir caused by Countess Zattiany's mysterious appearance in New York was not due wholly to her phenomenal beauty. It was also because no one seemed to know anything about who she was, aside from the fact that she was probably not who she said she was. Above all, it was due to her resemblance to beautiful Mary Ogden, also a Countess Zattiany, who must now be at least old enough to be this woman's mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black Oxen* | 3/3/1923 | See Source »

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