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Word: popular (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...Spelunking", or cave exploring to the indoor type, has turned out to be the one of the HOC's most popular activities, said president Bill Siddall last night. Expeditions will leave every Sunday for the Berkshires to accommodate those who derive pleasure from crawling on their belies through tunnels hollowed out by springs running through lime stone ledges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOC Schedule Lists Skiing, Skating, Hiking for Winter | 12/7/1948 | See Source »

Star Theater (Tues., 8 p.m., NBC-TV). Milton Berle emcees TV's popular variety show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Dec. 6, 1948 | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

Yale's footballers, having wound up a discouraging season (won 4, lost 5), gathered last week for one last huddle. It didn't take them long. In ten minutes, the boys elected popular Levi Jackson, their Negro halfback, captain of the 1949 team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Election Returns | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...Borrowed from a popular version of Andrew Carnegie's thesis that a man who has accumulated wealth should distribute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 6, 1948 | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

Died. Nellie Wallace, 78, tireless, buck-toothed British music-hall comedienne, who for nearly 40 years was a popular turn at London's famed Palladium with her shrill Cockney songs, red flannel underwear and tattered feather boa; of bronchitis, contracted the day after a performance before the King and Queen; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 6, 1948 | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

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