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Word: popular (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Popular among sporting Europeans is the Bugatti, a smart, small, high-powered automobile capable of 90 miles per hour without threatening to disintegrate or fly off the road. Ettore Bugatti, an Italian, manufactures this swift vehicle in Alsace, France. Last week, after a long conference with Premier Mussolini about building Bugatti automobiles in an Italian factory, Signer Bugatti revealed that he is also making a Bugatti boat-an all-steel "cigar," 82 ft. long, 10 ft. in diameter, which he said will be able to cross the Atlantic in two days. It is designed to travel half-submerged. Tubes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Speed Boat | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

...ancient and popular supersitition that contact with a toad brings warts to human membranes was long ago scientifically disproved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lobsters, Oysters | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

...progressive town with shiny buildings, civic pride and a school board.This school board, headed by the Rev. A. T. Ekblad and backed by the Mayor, intends to prepare Superior children for "life" (i. e., business). In Central High School there has been for 23 years a popular teacher, Lulu J. Dickinson, who preaches the humanities and tries to steer her pupils toward college. On March 14, the school board ousted her because she had been twitting its members before her classes. Forthwith, sly pupils wrote on blackboards: "We want our Lulu back." On April Fool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Strikes | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

...Music seems to run in cycles," continued the entertainer. "We have had the Hawaiian cycle and the Blues cycle, the one in which oriental types of music were most popular, and then the verse type, the one in which 'It Ain't Gonna Rain No More' was popular. Present day popular music may be classed in what is known as the 'Hokum type...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Composer of "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More" Defines Present Day Jazz as the "Hokum Type"--Says Radio Wears Music Out | 5/6/1927 | See Source »

Wendall Hall was the first popular Radio entertainer and the first to be married over the Radio. Commenting on this he said, "Yes, I courted my wife over the Radio, and our audience insisted that we be married over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Composer of "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More" Defines Present Day Jazz as the "Hokum Type"--Says Radio Wears Music Out | 5/6/1927 | See Source »

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