Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the Episcopal Church's Commission on Approaches to Unity recommended the plan five years ago (after mulling it over for half a century), high churchmen have flatly opposed it. Among Presbyterians the plan has created less stir, but in the main liberals have liked it, conservatives have...
...your fine rebellious souls Who hide out in the hills and stir...
Reprisal is the first novel by the author of the Gestapo thriller, Escape, since the revelation that Novelist Ethel Vance is really Grace Zaring Stone cleared up the biggest U.S. literary mystery of the decade. For three years this mystery caused a stir in U.S. intellectual life equaled only by the agitation over the question: who should play Scarlett O'Hara in the movie version of Gone With the Wind? No doubt the publishers expect this furor will turn Reprisal into a bestseller. But Reprisal is no Escape. The book is a slow-moving study of French life under...
...longed for and looked after, was to advance Learning and perpetuate it to Posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate Ministry to the Churches when our present Ministers shall be in the Dust. And as we were thinking and consulting how to effect this great Work it pleased God to stir up the heart of one Mr. Harvard (a godly Gentleman and a lover of learning, there living amongst us) to give the one halfe of his Estate (it being in all about 1700 pounds) towards the erecting of the Colledge; and all his Library...
...told FBI rounded up 84 Negroes in Chicago, four in Manhattan, with more to come in other northern and midwestern cities-cultist-puppets who, FBI believes, are jerked by the Japs to stir up racial trouble. Last week FBI began arraigning them on charges of sedition, pro-Japanese activities, draft dodging...