Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This course, originally intended as a small, intimate course on the socialist economists, when given for the first time last year, proved too popular to be labelled as small. Its intimate nature however was retained through Mr. Mason...
...risk one's life but not one's life insurance flying. To destroy the popular fallacy that normal policies do not insure against aviation accidents the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company queried 50 national underwriters. Forty-two have no clause in standard policy contracts eliminating liability from aeronautical activities. Four have special clauses eliminating such liability until the policy is one year old; paid. Four have similar clauses for two years...
...publicity given Governor Smith's Statement on the right of the people to organize against Prohibition indicates that this will probably be the only issue of great popular interest in the coming presidential campaign. Senator Borah, in demanding that the subject be brought into the open and voted upon, emphasizes the reluctance of the two major parties to touch the question, and shows confidence in the general belief that the country, however wet in sentiment, will unfailingly give a dry vote. What the opposition needs is a slogan that might convince citizens that the desire for disreputable indulgence...
...offering the Vagabond to its readers the CRIMSON has been entirely without any definite statistics as to the popular approval of the plan. Certain things--the Vagabond among them--must be thrust upon the public in the belief that the contribution is welcome or at least not unworthy of consumption. Therefore it is gratifying to learn the attitude of other colleges and universities, since thus is the Vagabond furnished with the sole concrete justification of his existence. If others offer him commendations he is partially assured that as a prophet he is not entirely without honor in his own country...
...Popular tradition considerably exagerates the young graduate's self-esteem", says Mr. Crawford, "but such cockiness may be in no small degree, attributed to the attitude of prospective employers". Commencement issues of the Lampoon notwithstanding, the graduate has never failed to recognize that the importance of the words, "baccalaureate" and "job" is in inverse proportion to their length. He has at last the foundation of a plan by which the success of his life may be less frequently jeopardized...