Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Upon becoming acting director of Chicago's popular Adler Planetarium, comely Astronomer Maude Bennot, 44. remarked: "There is a field for women in engineering, astronomy and other scientific endeavors. But it is definitely limited- mainly ... in the minds...
...second time in its half-century, Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera last week abandoned formality and opened a series of spring operas. Last year the spring season was called, half-apologetically, "experimental.'' This year its future seemed firmer and it was listed simply as "popular-priced." Three dollars again bought seats that in the winter sell for $7. Pianist Lee Pattison, recently appointed manager of the spring company, looked forward to the day when the Metropolitan would give performances all year round...
...duplicated often, for the sport of faltbootpaddeln which has already swept Europe seems now on the verge of doing the same in the U. S. The faltboot (folding boat) was invented by a Bavarian named Klepper in 1902. After the War, faltbootpaddeln took Germany by storm, became as popular in summer as skiing is in winter. In Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and England there are now some 500,000 faltboats. Year and a half ago one Jakob Kissner arrived in the U. S., got a patent on faltboats, began making them under the name Folbot in Long Island City...
Finley--Interested and enthusiastic teacher--makes the field popular by bringing interesting material into lectures--lectures slightly digressive...
Contrary to popular impression, the Kentucky Derby, in which a score of able U. S. three-year-old horses will this week race1¼ miles at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., is not the oldest, the richest or the best U. S. horse race. It is the most famed U. S. horse race and indubitably- in crowds, excitement, importance to the U. S. scene-the biggest. Last week the amiable, horsey city of Louisville was busy removing traces of the $52,000,000 damage left by last winter's flood in preparation for the one day in the year...