Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fate of City of Flint caused an angry stir in the U. S. State Department (see p. 16). From a naval viewpoint it was much bigger news that the 10,000-ton Deutschland-perhaps also her sisters Admiral Scheer and Admiral Graf Spee-was at large as a raider. Prime Minister Chamberlain took official cognizance of Deutschland in his weekly report to the House of Commons. She was known to have operated off Newfoundland between Oct. 5 and Oct. 15, halting two Norwegian vessels and sinking one of them, in addition to Stonegate. Admiral Scheer was believed operating...
Radcliffe girls want a chance to dance with Harvard men, and so they have started a series of lectures on the ballet, in order to stir up some interest among the members of the University...
Last week three hitherto steadfast Communists jumped from the train with what dignity they could. Frail, bespectacled Granville Hicks, a free-lance critic, writer (I Like America, John Reed-The Making of a Revolutionary), whose appointment to a Harvard fellowship raised a great stir in 1938, resigned not because he disapproved of the Russo-German Pact, but because bigwig Reds approved it before they could possibly know anything about it. ''The leaders of the Communist Party," wrote Mr. Hicks in the weekly New Republic, "have tried to appear omniscient, and they have succeeded in being ridiculous. They have...
Than Captain Liddell Hart, no other ten military critics caused more stir in the 20 years following World War I. He studied the campaigns of 1914-18, emerged with the conclusion that the generals on both sides had bungled fantastically: wasted millions of lives, exhausted their national patrimonies, achieved virtually nothing except to end the war by exhaustion. Other military men raised their eye brows at some of his military teachings, but when Leslie Hore-Belisha became Secretary of State for War in 1937, he began to listen to Captain Liddell Hart's advice, began to mechanize the British...
...Counsellor in American History in Adams House last year, Hicks was the brunt of numerous attacks by alumni, local politicians, and the metropolitan press. The University's refusal to give Hicks a permanent appointment following his one year term caused an equally intense stir in undergraduate circles...