Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like to suggest, on behalf of both the people of the United States and the girls of Wellesley, that Governor Dewey would be wise to make a last-minute shift and run for President of Wellesley--a position which just happens to be wide open. He would be more popular there than in the White House. He would be in the great tradition of Eisenhower and Stassen. And the most harm he could do would be to wreak his efficiency on the cops along Route...
Chanted over & over to the accompaniment of clapping hands, this Song of Ram has for generations been Hinduism's most popular hymn. It was a favorite with Gandhi, who believed that mere repetition of the name of the god Ram was an effective means of banishing fear. Gandhi added two lines of his own to the song: "Ishvar [Hindustani for God] and Allah are both thy names; give wisdom to all." Gandhi encouraged the use of the amended version to promote Hindu-Moslem harmony...
...entirely satisfactory to either hep cats or squares. Jazz addicts will want to take the picture home with them, to listen again & again to the jam sessions of Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet, Mel Powell, Lionel Hampton and Louis Armstrong. To those who are mystified by popular music, these names will add up to much noise and little sense. A Song is designed as a starring vehicle for Danny Kaye, but he is almost drowned out in the blare...
This is Somerset Maugham's 22nd novel. He has announced that it is also to be his last. If he sticks to that, 74-year-old Author Maugham, England's most popular contemporary novelist, will have brought to an end a career that has included such lasting favorites as Of Human Bondage, Cakes & Ale, and The Moon and Sixpence, as well as 57 volumes of short stories, essays, travel books and plays...
...Gibson's questions are not unique; they are quite popular, and have been so for a long time. The CRIMSON has been aware of such questions. It printed an editorial on September 28 explaining how its editorial policy is determined. That editorial said, in part...