Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meeting in advance the obvious objection that under such a system each judge will have to make up what is right and wrong as he goes along, Dr. Giirtner weightily declared: "The judge, basing himself on the popular conception of what is right, will obtain an unerringly accurate sense as to what may or may not legally be done. . . . Moreover Realmleader Hitler is ceaselessly endeavoring to be an embodied expression of the people's will. Thus a judge can find in the will of the Realmleader a guiding light to aid him in his own task...
...There is also an entertainment bureau which supplies lecturers, entertainers, and orchestras and is open to all students who have special abilities whether they have financial difficulties or not. More than 300 engagements were filled by the bureau last year. Window washing and snow shoveling services were also proven popular successes last year...
...Most upperclassmen play in the 45 courts which are under the supervision of the separate Houses. The H. A. A. courts are also used by non-House members and the students in the graduate schools with the result that the Freshmen are left a crowded schedule for this most popular sport...
...little story about a small-town girl so ashamed because her parents were poorer than those of her friends that, when a glamorous visitor fell in love with her, she destroyed her one real chance of happiness by carrying on an absurd pretense of being richer and more popular than she was. Nowadays,, because people whose circumstances are as comfortable as those of the Adams family seem less to be pitied than admired, a daughter as ashamed of her station as Alice inevitably produces the impression of being a psychopath. The oddity of the effect which time has produced upon...
Horses are now obsolete as a means of speedy locomotion. This, far from spoiling the sport of harness racing, has acted as a stimulus, by removing all its stigma of utility. Always popular in rural communities, harness racing lost favor in Eastern cities in the years following the War. In 1926, William H. Cane, a rich contractor and trotting fancier of Goshen, helped promote the first Hambletonian, named for the famed sire of 95% of U. S. harness racers, for the undreamed of purse of $73,000. The Hambletonian, which promptly became the Kentucky Derby of trotting, has lately caused...