Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee found "no impropriety nor anything open to censure or criticism" in President Hoover's behavior when the law-duty sugar lobby attempted to capitalize his name and his interest through personal connections. But it did consider "particularly reprehensible" the low-duty lobby's effort to stir up hostility to the U. S. in Latin-America...
...planned to organize similar "battalions" in all cities of 25,000 or more. Their organization model: The American Legion. Potent young Crusaders already enrolled: Charles Hamilton Sabin Jr., John Hay Whitney, William Phillip Carr, Charles Augustus Otis, Dan Rhodes Hanna Jr., Philip Richard Mather. Their program to reach and stir "the vast in-between class of America who are neither radical Wets more radical Drys...
This wire and wood sculpture has just been on exhibit...in the Fifty-Sixth Street Gallery in New York City, where it created no little stir among the ranks of Gotham critics and art connoisseurs...
Curiously, the idea of an honor system at examinations hasn't occurred in the crusading form for some time. The panegyric in an adjacent column may stir the hearts of Harvard men to take noble resolves to abide by the code, but some how it appears that the situation is reversed by the analysis therein set forth. The honor code as elaborated for the youth of the land looks more juvenile than any system of moderate supervision...
...policy is an excellent one and undoubtedly works out to the complete satisfaction of students and administration alike in the majority of cases. But it has the inevitable result that a few of the more youthful members of the younger generation, inflamed with a burning desire to create a stir in the world, though not quite mature enough to direct their energies into productive channels, from time to time engage in activities of one kind or another which tend to make John Harvard look a bit silly. For one with so many proteges, this is to be expected and must...