Word: pop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Busch acts were to cancel wartime censorship, announce his intention to hold elections, introduce civilians to his Cabinet. But the next year press censorship was made more rigorous, extremist agitation was outlawed. In November groups of more than three were forbidden to congregate on the streets of La Paz (pop. 142,547). When dormant political parties recently began to stir restlessly, President Busch enlarged the Senate from 16 to 24 members, called elections to be held...
...good-humored bishop, a small box, alleged to be Joanna Southcott's, was opened, found to contain miscellaneous objects. This box, according to the Panacea Society, was spurious. The society is confident that eventually 24 bishops will gather around the real box, and miracles will then pop. But to the society's recent petition the Church of England's bishops made no reply...
...nine years the whole world (pop. 2,134,000,000), with brief exceptions here and there, has been in a Great Depression. At some point in these bitter years, the post-War world became a pre-War world-that is, a world anticipating World War. Millions and millions of young men, in the U. S. as elsewhere, had a War marked fatalistically on their private calendars...
Alma Swensson was the prim, capable wife of a Lutheran schoolman in the little Swedish-American town of Lindsborg, Kans. (pop. 2,004). Alma Swensson loved Handel's oratorio, The Messiah, decided that her Swedish neighbors should hear it too. So she sent for the music, gathered a chorus of young people from the surrounding towns and farms, rehearsed them and let the welkin ring. That...
...Bakersfield, Calif., Teacher Hildegarde Case set out to prove to her pupils that plain foods are best, even for rats. To one rat she fed milk, whole wheat grains; to another, soda pop, salt pork, coffee. The first rat grew plump and healthy; the second even plumper. Suspecting a jokester, Teacher Case hid one night to waylay him. No one appeared, but in the morning she found eight baby rats in their soda-popped, pork-fed mother's cage...