Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meeting was the climax of the agitation which has been going on since. Yale's action left Harvard's team the only one in the League whose position was minor. The Student Council recommended such a move in a report on March 25, on the grounds of rising popular interest in the game both by players and spectators...
...waltzes on the lips of all Europe, is jealous of his son who shows a talent equal to his own, even if in a style abhorrent to the father. He thwarts his son's ambitions to lead an orchestra and play the waltzes he fears may become more popular than his own. But he is in good turn himself thwarted in his machinations, by nothing less than the intrigues of a Russian countess who has faith in the young Strauss. It is through her wiles that the son supplants his father, who is happily reconciled to his fate...
...literary clique but to the Intelligent Common Reader. And the address is written in such a fine and flowing hand that even when it is illegible the hopeful addressee can find some profitable pleasure in puzzling over it. Even her obscurer books have something about them that attracts popular attention, for more than most stylists, she writes about the common gist of things...
...Tuesday) written in an experimental associative-train-of-thought style which in the next ten years she developed into full flower. With Jacob's Room (1922), she captured the critics, began to win the reading public as well. Of her other books, Mrs. Dalloway is the most popular, but critical consensus has hailed The Waves as her masterpiece...
...open to question. But it is certainly fairer to give the man two years in which to better his position elsewhere. The Economics Department which has charge of promotions has twice passed over these two instructors and promoted others, because it felt that, while Sweezy and Walsh were concededly popular and excellent teachers, they were likely, on the basis of their record of scholarship to remain stationary in their academic standing. Whether the Administration's theory of productive scholarship as the principal basis for judging a man is a wise and proper one presents an entirely different question. The only...