Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...schools will give rise to new viewpoints and methods, peculiar to individual institutions, which may prove beneficial for the delegates to the conference. The results of this meeting will help to solve some of the difficulties which confront a branch of the educational system which is growing ever more popular...
...Dramatic Club, they occasionally attend lectures by visiting speakers. But the vast majority are more consistent in their devotion to the moving pictures, a technical discussion of the tactics employed in the Oshkosh-Podunk football game absorbs them more than a good book, and the bridge table is more popular than the lecture hall...
...slightly sinister Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, bristle-haired Junker. These and his famed Berlin newspapers (Der Tag, Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger) have given Dr. Hugenberg one of the most efficient machines for moulding public opinion in the world. He needed it last week, for he was attempting to force through by popular referendum a law denying Germany's War guilt, forbidding German acceptance of the Young plan. His task was as difficult as would be repealing the 18th Amendment in the U. S. Plebiscite. According to the Weimar Constitution of the German Republic, a law can be passed by popular referendum...
...Paul, played its second concert at home. Again the orchestra will take a midwinter tour as far as Havana, and a spring tour, adding to its present total of 2,191 concerts. In Manhattan, a new orchestra called the Manhattan Symphony gave the first of a series of 30 popular-priced concerts. Dr. Henry Hadley, rarely inspiring as conductor or composer, waved the baton. Ruggiero Ricci, nine-year-old violinist from San Francisco, astounded listeners with a marvelous playing of the Mendelssohn concerto. Like young Yehudi Menuhin, this new prodigy is a pupil of Louis Persinger...
...personally cashed his Senate pay checks. In the end, though, Senator Bingham was concerned into the admission that: "I probably made a mistake." He stepped from the stand a very wilted and word-bruised Senator. His colleagues, however, had scant sympathy for him. He has never been a popular member of the Senate because he attempts to manage debate in the same wise-teacher-and-drill-pupil manner he conducted his classes in South American history at Yale...