Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stearman Company is now capitalized at $600,000 and is producing one of the most refined commercial biplanes on the market. This ship is flown by the air lines, by the government and is very popular with people of wealth who take up aviation as a sport...
...trouble you to let me know the answer to the above question, and if Governor Smith did not receive the largest popular vote, except for Mr. Hoover, will you please state who did and what the figures as to the votes were...
Prior to 1928, the greatest popular vote polled by a U.S. Presidential candidate was Harding's 16,152,200 in 1920. Next highest was Coolidge's 15,725,016 in 1924. The 1928 results have not yet been officially rechecked and published. The latest count compiled by Current History shows Hoover 21,409,215, Smith 15,042,366. When a final count of the 1928 popular vote is available, TIME will print it, State by State...
Inspired as he may be by his mission of bringing light into whatever intellectual shadows of doubt can be admitted to exist in and about the Yard, the Vagabond is of too sensitive a nature to remain long indifferent to popular sentiment. For some days he has been noticing a distinct lessening of the bond of sympathy between himself and the rest of the college, and yesterday he realized that it had dissipated entirely when a comprehensive exposition of the relative merits of three rival ten o'clocks was interrupted by an entirely irrelevant query as to whether eight minutes...
...colleges, and it was decided that the Harvard team would support the alternative in all cases. The Harvard team will present its arguments after the English fashion, aiming to entertain as well as to inform. The first of the following resolutions was by far the most popular of those submitted for the approval of the colleges: Resolved, That Emancipated Woman is a Curse: Resolved. That Loyalty is the Curse of the American College: Resolved. That the Jury System should be abolished...