Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...casually trained; comeback, while genuinely native, has too verbal a connotation and is associated in the American sport-lover's memory with too many disappointed has-beens to be very useful. And the current American Recovery, plus the myriad full-circle swings of the pendulum of popular interest in this always amazing country, may well provide many situations where the use of Jimplecute would be most...
...Central Provinces and the United Provinces (TIME, March 8). Together these make up three quarters of the population of British India. Taking returns from all provinces into account, the Party of Gandhi won a nation-wide majority as impressive as that won last autumn by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.* This popular mandate went to a party which had gone to the polls with a platform of opposing the new Constitution...
Your good-natured and impartial account, (TIME, March 8), of the debate in the Senate on approving for another three years the current trade agreements policy suggests again the remarkable dearth of popular interest in this very practical aspect of our foreign affairs. In what other country with, such far-flung foreign trade and investments would Senators view with genuine alarm an increase in the receipt of the good things of this earth from abroad and cry for a return to the days when we habitually shipped out much more than we received? Intelligent readers desiring light on the facts...
...Queen the $750,000 Kohinoor diamond of 106 carats. It has been the chief jewel of Queen Mary's Crown, now goes into new Queen Elizabeth's new crown on which London platinumsmiths are rushing work. By an unprecedented alteration in British rules of precedence the extremely popular Queen Mother was last week slated to drive ahead of the King & Queen in the Coronation procession. At previous Coronations it has been customary for a Queen Mother to make no public appearance...
...these ten, in their struggle for the prizes, are raising their voices in the cause for better speaking, furnishing impetus to a regenerated art. The trend towards original writing and simplified delivery at long last seems under way. Given added stimulation of this sort the Prizes will become as popular and as highly esteemed as the donors wanted them...