Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Duke of Connaught has never been a popular figure, even in the Commonwealth. He is much too reserved for that. He has not been popular in the Army. His acid wit prevented that. The measure of publicity, which the remainder of the royal family have never been able to eschew, although they hate it as cordially as does the Duke, he has been able to avoid...
...voluntarily subordinating its own pride of tradition in deference to what it considers a prior right. To the Indiana athletic authorities goes the credit for an action of this most graceful sort. Through their courtesy the older Crimson will appear on the field next Saturday. Indiana gains in popular acknowledgement of a thoughtful gesture, what she has willingly for saken of her own tradition. Harvard extends its admiration to a chivalrous rival...
Touch football was inaugurated last year as a part of the "Athletics for All" program of the Harvard Athletics Association and proved popular enought to make its continuance this year worth while...
...show, orders amounting to between ?60,000,000 & ?70,000,000 ($291,975,000 & $340,937,500) were last week placed, some dealers contracting for their entire 1928 output. Tiny four-cylinder cars with 7 ½-foot wheelbase, capable of 40 miles to a gallon of gasoline, proved most popular. Price...
...Acting as a sort of clearing house for Old World information and data on industrial aviation the Business School is working for the cause of aviation in the United States, continuing in a movement which received its greatest impulse in Lindbergh's trans-Atlantic flight, and which still holds popular interest...