Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Proprietor wishes to thank the members of the University for their frequent patronage. Special steak and chicken dinners have been very popular...
...main interests of Harvard students are the same as in previous years they are constantly becoming more critical in their choice of individual courses. The all-star cast of the social sciences, headed by Economics A, History 1, and Government 1, in the order named, is still as popular as ever. Next place goes to the literature courses, and the fact that French E and German A run into big figures is due without doubt to the language requirement and not to any inherent attraction in themselves...
When the clock struck midnight on November fourth, America had spoken and Roosevelt had been swept back into office by the mightiest tidal wave of popular opinion ever expressed in the United States. That he was the man of the hour was undeniable and no one tried to gainsay it. Instead, all: Republicans and Democrats, Socialists and radicals, the mighty, friend and foe alike, joined in tribute to the man and his magnificent victory. It was his minute, his moment of glory...
Hecht and MacArthur again, taking sophisticated cracks at the newly popular cult of armchair communism, as practiced at intellectual colleges. This one is co-educational; the founder's daughter, a bored post-debutante, returns for more learning after a trip around the world, and falls in love with the arch-radical of the campus. Nothing is too red for her then, until she is kidnapped by one who embodies all radicalism within himself; rescued from his predicament by a trio of splendidly-played burlesque G-men, and returned to the arms of her incredibly rich father, through with bolshevism...
...events of Saturday should allay any doubts as to the interest of the students in the university's most popular sport. Any speculation as to whether the playing of the team was improved by the cooperation of the undergraduates or the unlooked for burst of joy was evoked by the superior performance on the field is to revive the argument of the chicken and the egg. Saturday's game has shown that there was nothing chronic in the team's previous ill luck, and that football played as a clean sport has lost none of its interest or effectiveness...