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Word: stirs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make it a stag organization Clem, or you would shut me out. I'm in my 82nd year and I stirred apple butter every Fall for years in the late 60s-in my kid days I didn't stir it in the back yard though. There was a house built over the spring on my father's farm in Pennsylvania. Downstairs was where the springwater ran through a big trough, and there was kept the milk "crocks," butter jars, etc. In that room, we churned the butter in a good old dasher churn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 4, 1937 | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...decision to bar members from granting credits for the sale of armaments to Japan. And diplomatically she might forestall any Japanese assertion of belligerent rights to search and seize merchant ships. All this added up to just about the ablest set of moves Chinese could possibly make to stir the moribund League to action, and stirring were the words of Dr. Wellington Koo, although he never once spoke of "war": "Intoxicated by his last conquest, the invader [Japan] is bent upon ruthless slaughter and wanton destruction. The lives of 450,000,000 people are at stake. . . . The Japanese forces invading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Cheering Section | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...unmarried girl over 18 may go unchaperoned to the theatre with a man, even to dinner in his apartment if it will not stir comment in her circle. She no longer leans upon a man's arm in the city, may invite him to a game or the theatre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Autocrat of Etiquette | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...tongued and hit easy high C's on the cornet, but also did not disdain making noise simply by sucking the mouthpiece. For the back row Freddie Fisher got Pianist-Arranger Paul Cooper, Drummer Kenneth Trisko, Bull Fiddler Charles Koenig. The Schnickel-fritz Band did not cause much stir in Winona until a Decca representative named Elvin T. Christman heard the boys last January. He took them to Chicago to make their first four recordings, became their manager and sold them to the St. Paul tavern for $155 a week (union scale) and 40% of the gross. By last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Schnickelfritz | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

...pension system started in 1919. If his pension system did not deserve all the credit, yet it still remains after 18 years quite as notable as this year's increase in profits. The company neither advertises nor seeks publicity, so the Joslyn plan never made much stir until last winter when the company prepared to sell $1,350,000 worth of common stock. Financial writers then discovered Marcellus Joslyn's old labor policy, adopted during the post-War period of strikes and labor migrations, and Father Coughlin presented him with an oratorical laurel wreath. Scholarly President Joslyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Poles & Pensions | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

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