Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficult task of brushing aside the veil of popular adulation to portray the man as he really is, H. Gordon Garbedian, a science editor of the New York Times, has essayed in the first published biography of the life of this great mathematical genius. With a sweeping imagination which, although it tends to overdramatize prosaic details, never fails to sustain the reader's interest, the author unfolds an absorbing tale of a courageous fighter whose entire youth was a bitter battle against poverty and racial prejudice...
Over a period of years--since, for example, the early 1900's--there has been a surprising tendency for the popularity of a certain class of subjects to remain stable, while that of others fluctuated violently. Within the latter group, it has often occurred that two fields have not only fluctuated, but have done so exactly in inverse relation to one another--indicating, obviously, a tendency of undergraduates to stampede hither and you. As popular as Economics is today, it was even more attractive to students in 1910; at that time the enrollment of Ec. A surpassed that of every...
When Adolf Hitler took over Austria, his Ambassador in Washington, Hans Dieckhoff, quietly took over the Austrian Legation on Washington's Massachusetts Avenue without protest from popular Austrian Minister Edgar Prochnik. Last week Dr. Hans Thomsen, German Chargé d'Affaires (who in the continued absence of Herr Dieckhoff is Adolf Hitler's No. i man in the U. S.), received orders to take over the building standing right next door to the late Austrian Legation-the Legation of Czecho-Slovakia. He ordered two secretaries to go over and take possession. After they left he rang...
...spite of their scandalous feudal economics, the princes are useful to Britain as buffers against Indian nationalism and the popular Indian National Congress. Britain's technique, therefore, has been to flatter them with a pretense of needing their advice. The Chamber ot Princes, "a permanent consultative body," which was set up in 1921 to implement the pretense, has had pretty regular annual meetings but has never proved much...
Using American universities as an example, Zimmerman stated, "The Universities of this country are now in a critical period. In Europe, to a considerable extent, the professors must play up entirely to popular sentiment. Slowly but surely this dominion of mass psychology, with its foibles and hysteria, is gaining a foothold in American universities...