Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rarely enter their products. First eight places in last week's race went to Miller engines, made by famed Harry Miller of Los Angeles or his long-time Assistant Frederick Offenhauser, to whom he last year turned over most of his patterns. Four-cylinder engines are more popular than sixes or eights because of the premium placed on economy by the gasoline allowance-this year reduced from 42 ½to 37 ½ gallons...
Former ministries, often with Socialist tags, but always with varying shades of liberal rather than Socialist opinions, might have offered some compromise. Not so the Popular Front government, being constituted as it is, with the radical left in absolute control of the lower house, and hence, in control of the ministry...
...most popular sandwiches at Bob Berger's Restaurant in Boston is not the Rudy Vallee, nor the Al Jolson, the Kate Smith, nor the Bing Crosby, but the Wilford Cook Saeger--Bursar of this University...
...said casually, "I am taking Miss. . . . . .", mentioning the name of one of Boston's most popular debutantes. The interviewer's pencil fairly quivered when he noted down this declaration, for this, at last, was real news...
...committee chairman was very busy. Time passed quickly, but finally he was able to snatch a few minutes off to glance at a newspaper. There, on the society page, was a story blazoned in caps (the reporter had done his job well) which related in detail how the popular debutante was to grace the forth-coming Cambridge festivities...