Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Popular request, however, caused him to drop the idea and take up the present one in which no team will play more than twice a week, and usually only once. The quarters will be eight minutes during two-game weeks and ten minutes during the others...
...Despite popular misconceptions of the "Colossus on the Hudson," undergraduate enrollment totals only 2,000--up from a pre-war norm of 1,750. But because of the confusion between small Columbia College and huge Columbia University, and because of the college's pre-eminent position in the world's largest city, people have come to expect big things of the institution which once turned out such graduates as Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Robert Livingston, and Gouverneur Morris...
Although he bases his work on statistics, Bean does not lose his grip on the realities of U.S. politics. He admits that a Democratic victory could be averted if a Third Party took four to eight percent of the popular vote away from the Democrats without cutting the G.O.P. vote, or if a depression set in strongly by Nov. 2. He hints at the possibility of a Republican victory with something less than a majority of the popular vote--an alternative as yet unvoiced in the press. But with the other hand he holds out the key to a possible...
...part of the stands, marked on the map for overflow Freshmen and graduate students, is the colonnade, where large pillars block off sections of the field. Bingham said that unlucky Freshmen might be able to get better seats on the opposition's side of the field for the less popular games such as Brown and Holy Cross...
...Armchair Audit, a show which presents some of the most popular and learned lectures by various eminent professors, continues as an integral part of WHRV cultural pattern...