Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quite suddenly, Britons were more popular than they had ever been in India. In Calcutta, Hindus dragged eleven Moslems from a train, hacked them to death. At Amritsar 120 were killed, hundreds injured in rioting between Sikhs and Moslems. But none attacked the once-hated British, who could thank two men for the heightened prestige of their graceful exit...
Pound, University professor emeritus, will accompany Chao when he returns to his homeland this September and will take up advisory duties in the Department of Justice in Nanking. "He is very popular and well known in my country," said Chao, recalling that on the Professor's visit last summer he was an official guest at the villa of President Chiang Kai Shek...
...speaker is this summer lecturing in one of the largest courses at the college--Gov 3, principles of popular government...
...spread of intramural fever is expected to reach tennis and swimming shortly, with plans now being formulated by Norman W. Fradd, assistant director of Physical Training, for tournaments in the two other popular summer sports...
...U.S.C., popular Fred Fagg succeeds domineering old Rufus von KleinSmid, who in his later years has antagonized most of his faculty. But in his day Rufus von KleinSmid had been something of an administrator too: he had expanded U.S.C.'s cramped campus into a 55-acre plant with 12,000 students and one of the fattest ($12,000,000) annual budgets among U.S. universities...