Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven years ended 1939, Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co. made more stir with its streamlined trains than anyone else in the field. But it lost money in the process. Now Budd is busy making ammunition parts, body assemblies for bombs, other war materials-and money. September-quarter profits were $99,000, up from $402,000 loss last year. Full-year earnings will be the largest since...
Died. Katherine Mayo, 73, crusading authoress whose best-selling Mother India in 1927 caused an international stir; after long sickness; in Bedford Hills, N. Y. Said Mahatma Gandhi as Miss Mayo's indictment of Hindu caste and culture was being burned throughout India: "A book. . . every Indian can read with . . . profit. We may repudiate the charge. . . but . . . not the substance...
...women and children can serve no useful purpose to the American way of life. To depict a man in the character of a German hurling insults at our American citizenry could only serve a god of hatred, m contrast to our God of Love. It would tend to stir up strife and resentment, resulting in possible attack upon some innocent American citizens of German descent...
Most U. S. schoolboys have goggled at museum collections of armor, swords, muskets, pistols. Few museum arms displays are calculated to stir the imaginations of adults. But last week, Leslie Cheek, imaginative director of the Baltimore Museum of Art, put on a vivid show called "Again: Arms & Armor...
...trees stir; the tides turn; the cloud...