Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ship must be hauled into drydock, which may be thousands of miles away. Last week the Navy Department told how it proposed to overcome this difficulty with a $15,000,000 floating drydock, a strange craft that would not seem out of place among the weird illustrations of Popular Science Monthly...
Peace in the Archipelago hung in the balance. Sultan Wasit was popular with the great majority of his people. If they once come to believe that Dayang Dayang or her Filipino friends conspired to poison him, Moros from Borneo, Celebes and Java can be expected to come to the aid of their brothers in the Sulu Archipelago. Then the day of the Moros' inevitable revolt against the masters they despise will be at hand, a struggle which the Moros, outnumbered and unarmed, cannot win, but in which they as born fighting men will doubtless take heavy toll of cocky...
...department has nothing to do with that." answered President Runciman. When "Wee Ellen" attempted to question the Home Secretary, Sir John Simon, who heads the department concerned, Speaker Fitzroy of the House of Commons refused to permit her question. Skating on thin ice, London editors of popular news-organs, still afraid to print the Simpson story, asked their bewildered readers under screaming headlines "WHAT IS THIS THING WHICH THE BRITISH PUBLIC IS NOT ALLOWED...
...These are a small, professional force assisted by some German and Italian aviation and supplies. Up to last week they had occupied 28 of the 50 provinces of Spain. Although everywhere outnumbered hundreds to one by the Spanish proletariat, they had not up to this week been ousted by popular uprising from any important area which they have occupied. Of the 68 branches of the Bank of Spain, 38 were under regular White administration, and the German Government, in extending diplomatic recognition, confirmed so far as the Reichsbank is concerned the regulation of Generalissimo Franco that a Spanish bank-note...
That gum consumption jumps tremendously during examinations, that chewers are habitual addicts, and that the quantity of gum consumed by students far exceeds the popular conception are the conclusions drawn from a recent survey of gum-chewing conditions in the College...