Word: populares
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Squash has already proved so popular this fall that the courts are now being kept open on the winter schedule. They may now be used from 8 o'clock in the morning to 9.30 o'clock in the evening. . . . Among the changes that spectators will notice in the Stadium on Saturday will be the transfer of the Harvard and visiting substitutes from the benches they occupied on the side-lines in previous seasons to seats in the regular stands. . . . General Manager Getchell, Crimson ticket king estimates that Saturday's attendance at the Stadium will reach about 20,000 people. After...
...tried and which, no matter how successful, can never even gracefully imitate such an essentially democratic and all-Yale line of division as the class? Yale is vexed with too many social lines of cleavage now, without adding a basically artificial substitute for the most popular method of division yet found. The class is one of the few weapons which Yale possesses to prevent the beast from biting the hand that feeds it. --Yale Daily News...
...auto ban is recognized. It is likely that considerable desultory week-ending and cruising has has been thereby eliminated, and a potential cause of deaths has been greatly curbed. The number of colleges which have adopted such a ruling since Princeton's action gives to it a popular acceptance. --The Daily Princetonian...
...York Times to issue a categorical and sharp denial of these absurd and irresponsible stories. . . . I not only authorize, I implore you to protest energetically in my name against the ridiculous distortions of my scientific work by popular journalism, which represent me as an inventor of a specific against idiocy."-Dr. Eugen Steinach, to the New York Times Vienna correspondent last week...
...bridge with contract bridge as the standard social card-game, did not attend Whitehead's convention. He, Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, one of the best bridge-players in the world, has written a book † on Bridge and brought a new word into the language, "vanderbilting." Briefly, and in popular terms, you vanderbilt when you bid one club as an indication that you have three quick tricks in your hand. Though the club bid indicates the three tricks, to bid it you do not need any clubs. It is merely informative. Presupposing no bid from the opponent on your left...