Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General of Recruiting and author of the famed Derby Scheme, which gave the nation's manhood its last chance to join the colors before conscription overtook it. He next became Secretary of State for War, a post which he relinquished in 1918 to become one of the most popular Ambassadors to France that Britain has ever had. And in 1920, "tired of the limelight," he resigned. Urged to become Secretary for War once again, he refused and, instead, put on horn-rimmed spectacles and went to Ireland as Mr. Edwards...
...Some American business men", continued Dr. Stuart, "foolishly urge upon the American government armed intervention in China. If armed interference were attempted by any nation, the students would at once lead a popular uprising. The one thing that has no force in China today is force...
...struggle for liberation Russia must inevitably return to the road of popular, national, democratic government, the road upon which the Russian people embarked-hesitatingly and with uncertain steps-in March...
...nature of matter, the more they can do with that matter. This truism, Professor Karl Taylor Compton of Princeton (brother of Arthur Holly Compton) elaborated only last month at the Founder's Day exercises of Lehigh University. Said he: "Inventors in this country have always been popular idols. We tell young school children about the inventions of Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney and Thomas Edison. We have been blessed by a number of men who had the spark of genius to conceive of a steamboat, a cotton gin, a dynamo or an incandescent lamp and numerous other machines and processes...
...bought a Corona Portable typewriter (L. C. Smith & Corona Typewriters, Inc.) has bought a colored Corona Portable.*He purchases either a scarlet, a maroon, a green, a blue, a cream & gold, or a lavender & gold. Red is men's choice. Ivory and lavender are unpopular. Scarlet is popular. English & U. S. society women now have typewriters that do not suggest "business." Of the colored typewriters sold to date: 22 % are Scarlet 17 % are Maroon 18 % are Blue 13 % are Lavender 18 % are Green 12 % are Ivory...