Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same time, the bond which once linked him with Cecil Day-Lewis and Stephen Spender has almost been severed, for both have taken the road to overt political action as advocates of the Popular Front in Great Britain. Will the bond finally snap? Or will it be repaired and will the three be joined again as the triumvirate of English poetry searching for "new country" of political and social experiment as well as of literary discipleship to masters like G. M. Hopkins, Yeats, and Eliot...
...usually Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin who makes a clean breast in the House of Commons of shortcomings of his Cabinet (TIME, Nov. 23 et ante), but last week this penitent part-a role which homely Squire Baldwin has made singularly popular in the United Kingdom-was taken by the Minister for the Coordination of Defense, Sir Thomas Hobart Inskip...
...Brothers Meyer is also credited development of the popular "skeeter" ice boat. When introduced in 1931 on Lake Pewaukee by one Roger Joys of Milwaukee the first skeeter was merely a ten-foot triangular wooden frame supported on three runners, carrying a small sail on a 15-ft. mast. Today it is a sporty, front -steering ice-racing machine with 75-ft. sail area, manageable by a girl, thrilling enough for a man, inexpensive (150-$250). light enough (125 Ib.) to be disassembled and hauled about by auto. While not so fast as such legendary performances as Kittie...
Music 1, a new course this year, is a combination of the old 3 and 4, thereby giving, under Professor Davison, a mixture of history and appreciation. It has proved considerably more popular than its projectors had expected, attracting some three hundred men. There are inevitably flaws in a new course, but Music 1 has been improving as it went along, and most of those taking it are decidedly pleased with their investment. There are probably many who thought they smelled a snap, and have since been chagrinned by demands that they learn something. But for every snap-hunter...
...beginning their primary college work; they will not be allowed to look at their art until they are married to it with slim chances of divorce. This consideration reveals the folly of limiting an elementary course, and of limiting it, at that, at a level far below the present popular demand...