Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Goodrich Co. reported that since the war the most popular size in rubber gloves has been 7½ instead of the prewar 8, which might indicate that U.S. hands are getting smaller...
Every child needs and has a right to guidance. . . . Letting children, perhaps forcing them is more accurate, to decide for themselves by popular vote ("the vote of a four-year-old counts as much as ... any teacher's") all the rules of their own conduct and government is as unreasonable and inexcusable as for one to say to a blind man, "Choose your own path-I won't say a word...
...amount of education has entirely succeeded in doping the popular mind into complete uniformity, for however uniform the doped minds of the masses may appear to be, somewhere lurks the undefeated ... ego waiting a chance of 'breaking through' and asserting itself. Often the last kick of indomitable individuality is against the accepted meaning of words, it is none the less a kick even if it misses its mark, like the legendary old lady who had always been under the impression that Cherubim and Seraphim were 'man and wife like Sodom and Gomorrah...
...college room overlooking the deer park, or (when there is not enough coal or wood to keep it warm) in his tiny, book-crammed inner study. Lewis has informed the BBC that he is through with radiorat-ing, for an indefinite period. He has no immediate plans for further "popular" books, fantastic or theological. But Lewis admirers may not have too long to wait...
Although Flynn's streamlined machine is as clean as a political organization can be, it has some essentials in common with all other machines, from Julius Caesar's to Bathhouse John Coughlin's. Its external principle is the exchange of political favors in return for popular support; its internal principle is group devotion to the idea of more power for the group...