Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...popular thing these days is the filling out of questionnaires. Harvard undergraduates gave their usual horse laugh recently when Princeton '37 came through with the customary poll for Most Handsome and Did Most for Princeton. Now, however the business strikes closer home. Harvard's Class of 1927 in its Decennial Report has just made out and published a questionnaire of sixty-nine not particularly significant queries. One member has made a digest and written an article, "Was It Worth White?" which he probably thinks a good sequel to Mr. Tunis's masterpiece...
Night before the pamphlet was to be read, Munich's most popular Catholic priest, Father Rupert Mayr, who lost both legs fighting for the Fatherland and has fearlessly lashed Nazi propaganda, was arrested. This did not prevent young Catholics all over Germany from flocking to their churches on "Sunday of Youth." Hitler Youth Groups were at the churches to meet them, to jeer and catcall from outside while the Catholic pamphlet was being read from the pulpits. The pamphlet made no attempt to deny the charges of immorality-"Weakness and sin have always walked alongside the Church...
...Minister in the Hayashi Cabinet, kept his job after getting a promise from the new Premier that national defense would be strengthened. Navy Minister Vice Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai also stayed in office. Cautious, 59-year-old Koki Hirota, onetime Premier, onetime Foreign Minister, returned to the Foreign Office-a popular move...
...conceived and built this contraption was Wallace Andrews, one of John Davison Rockefeller's associates. Mr. Andrews' coal pipeline was only one product of his fertile imagination. A popular dandy with a flair for equipage and flowered vests, in 1890 he organized Manhattan's first ice manufacturing company. Before that he had started to pipe live steam underground to supply Manhattan buildings with heat. Oddly, the successful steam idea was ridiculed even more than the coal dream, which came to naught. Mr. Andrews burned to death in a fire that leveled his Fifth Avenue mansion...
...when I did not think clearly," he was merely tired of living. A first sign of recovery was the return of his interest in reading. Asylum readers favored Mary Baker Eddy's Science and Health, the Saturday Evening Post. Except for suicide news, newspapers were seldom noticed. Most popular intellectual pursuit was crossword puzzles...