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Word: popularized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dean Noe, long a popular, liberal-minded Memphis churchman, performed his pastoral tasks last week with vigor which amazed observers, he insisted that his huskiness of voice, his loss of weight from 200 pounds to 100 pounds or less, were the result of a recent attack of influenza. In Chicago, Dr. Morris Fishbein, perennial spokesman for U. S. Medicine, expressed doubt that Dean Noe had lived on oranges for a year, cracked: "The stomach has no religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Noe's Woes | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...mural paintings truly depict and symbolize the history of the State. . . ." He gave a show at the College Union, lectured on art to farm boys in agriculture courses, went on field trips with Dean Chris Christensen of the College. His face-cracking, cherubic grin and piping voice made him popular with Wisconsin students. Question: How did all this affect the painting of a Kansan who six years ago put Kansas on the U. S. artistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Professor Curry | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

Wallace. To refute the popular impression that farmers were better off than industry in 1937, Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace offered a set of statistics: "The 1937 production of 53 crops was 13% greater than the 1929 production and 40% greater than the 1936 production, which was considerably curtailed by drought. The effect of this increase in the face of declining business activity and urban purchasing power has been a sharp drop in farm prices. Since December 1936 they have shrunk from 126% of the pre-War level to 104% of the pre-War level. The present level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Hindsight | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...semantics, is: What is the connection between words and reality? Readers who knew their Stuart Chase expected a lively piling up of rough-hewn evidence, the sinister emergence of a nigger, and a whooping pursuit. They were not disappointed. The Tyranny of Words is a typical Stuart Chase book: popular, suggestive, controversial, a racy simplification of a vast problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Semantics | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...writings. As his only ''operational test" he asked 100 people, ranging from schoolboys to Senators, what "fascism" meant to them. They all disliked it, but they had 15 different concepts of what they disliked, including that of a housewife who thought it was "a Florida rattlesnake." Popular ideas of "com-munism," "democracy," "capitalism," says Chase, would show as much confusion. Users of such terms, he declares, "are like motorists trying to explore Maine guided by a map of Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Semantics | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

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