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Word: popular (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show needs more such perkiness. more of the zip Belafonte puts into When the Saints Go Marching In. brighter chitchat than likable Hiram Sherman brings to lifting the silver dishcovers off each new course. But the show's weak points may have popular lure. Its concert air half-conceals its TV approach; its chorus that specializes in trick sound effects substitutes vocal decor for visual. The show's big production gimmick is its extremely high-styled hick stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Show in Manhattan, Apr. 18, 1955 | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

...Manhattan Project, and once when the Corporation was choosing a successor to the newly-appointed High Commissioner of Germany. He is known privately as the man who resigned to give the new president a free hand, the last man to fill the powerful office of Provost. A popular professor who gives a course in the history of the South, he is also a gifted administrator to whom President Pusey offered a position at the first possible opportunity...

Author: By Christopher S. Jeneks, | Title: The Management of 120 Miles of Books | 4/15/1955 | See Source »

...many years Holcombe taught and planned Government 1. He now teaches Government 103, Principles of Popular Government, Government 130, The National Government of the United States, and two graduate courses in American Government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Holcombe, Builder of Dept. of Government, To Retirement in Summer | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

...Chou En-lai's professions of peace at face value, Jawaharlal Nehru is stuck with the thesis that those old debbil Americans must be causing all the trouble. It was getting to be an old song. The words made no sense, but in India the tune was undeniably popular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Those Debbil Americans | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

...Image Books (Doubleday), devoted entirely to Roman Catholic works, with total sales to date of 500,000. Bestseller of its 16 titles: Philip Hughes's Popular History of the Catholic Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Respectable Paperbacks | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

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