Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book is good if it effects a few people a great deal. It is popular if it amuses or indulges a great many people hardly perceptibly...
...Widely popular when it was originally released in 1948, Sitting Pretty seems only mildly amusing and highly contrived...
Movies appeared to be the most popular form of graduate student entertainment, with "concerts and music" not far behind; more mundane forms of recreation such as "drinking and dating" brought up the rear in this category...
Geography is, however, not only of value because of its usefulness in other fields. It is of value and interest by itself, as its use as a drawing-card by the Summer Session points out. Last week Time Magazine reported that the most popular and highly regarded general education course for graduate students at Stanford was "Geography and Contemporary World Problems...
...Beverly Hills a woman patient asked her doctor for a prescription for a popular tranquilizing drug. The pills, she explained, were for her daughter, who needed them to get through the trying first week of her honeymoon. In Boston a sunburned blonde asked her druggist for a bottle of "happiness pills." Said she: "I just got back from Florida, and everybody down there gets them...