Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...points with pride to the fact that squash is now even penetrating warmer sections of the country, that with almost 400 players in the Houses it is probably Harvard's most popular sport. When the Cambridge University team meets the Crimson racquetmen on Thursday, March 24, intercollegiate squash will be on an international plane for the first time...
...sophisticated age, the devil and hell have become very complicated. The true faith is capitalism. Its priests are lawyers and economists. The devil consists of an abstract man called a demagogue." Last year's defeat of Supreme Court reorganization constituted "a way of taking away from a great popular majority the fruits of their recent victory at the polls." The effect of anti-trust laws has been "to promote the growth of great industrial organizations by deflecting the attack on them into purely moral and ceremonial channels...
...November (TIME, Nov. 29), many an observer wondered how soon Mr. Hearst would begin to sell the rest of his hoard. The total Hearst collection of art and art objects has never been catalogued except in its owner's capacious memory, but its monstrous character has been a popular legend for years. Last autumn the New Yorker tried to investigate one of the five Hearst warehouses, a square block building in The Bronx, and reported rumors that besides a dim array of armor and some mummies it contained two palaces and a church, in pieces...
...household word-almost comparable with the name Hearst for press potency-which they are today. With the successful purchase of the New York Telegram and later of the great New York World, they moved into Manhattan and gained prestige. Meanwhile Scripps-Howard came to identify a type of journalism, popular but not vulgar, liberal (supporting Roosevelt in his first term) but independent (criticizing Roosevelt later...
...which he described in Asylum, big, credulous, 52-year-old William Seabrook has never found in the U. S. the kind of people he likes to write about most-devil worshipers, whirling dervishes, cannibals. In These Foreigners, a study of foreign-born Americans, Author Seabrook finds a suitable compromise. Popular, readable, with a minimum of round-figure footnotes, his book picks only the "non-statistical, humaninterest" highlights...