Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Popular Nicholas. A trace of resentment was shown by the Grand Duke Alexander in speaking of his cousin the Grand Duke Nicholas: "Always he was very popular with the Army! That is the only reason why anybody thinks he should be Tsar. He is too old! He is exactly 72. I saw it in the New York Times, this morning, where they say he is very sick on the Riviera. Such an old man could not have the strength to lead such a cause...
...subscriber may not switch from one performance to another while the first performance continues. Having chosen his play, he must listen to it or nothing. Operated as an attachment to the regular telephone system of Paris, Le Théatrophone is not to be confused with radio, also popular in France...
Astronomer Harlow Shapley, 43, of Harvard. This autumn he created his popular fame by repeatedly giving talks on stellar organizations. As the complement to the Association's initial lecture (Professor Bailey's "Continental Genesis") President Henry Fairfield Osborn of the Association appointed Professor Shapley to give the final lecture. Professor Shapley entitled his paper "Galaxies of Galaxies-a new study of the super-organization of the Milky...
Editor-Chemist Edwin Emery Slosson, 63, a man discreetly sought after because his Science Service at Washington rewrites scientific reports in popular language and despatches them to the country's newspapers...
...company almost immediately created and popularized Uneeda Biscuit, which, though popularly best known as one of the early examples of selling a brand name through advertising, was most important as part of a general movement toward marketing crackers and biscuits in packages instead of in bulk. The name originally proposed for Uneeda Biscuit was Uneeda Cracker; the change being made because "biscuits" seemed to rank "crackers" in popular estimation. National Biscuit is the largest biscuit manufacturer in the world, has never reported a deficit, had a net income of $13,038,000, first nine months of 1928. Its president...