Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ohio. If popular ex-Governor Frank Lausche returns to the Executive Mansion, Republican Governor Tom Herbert will have only himself to blame. Practical John Bricker had been shrewd enough to separate the state and national ballots when he was running for governor in 1940, thus avoiding burial in the Roosevelt landslide. But bumbling Tom Herbert had refused to ask the legislature to unite them again last summer to take advantage of Tom Dewey's pulling power. Plainly bored by Herbert's long-winded campaigning, many a Republican was listening to the impromptu, Lincoln-quoting speeches of Democrat Lausche...
...last week Edward Sienkiewicz, camp inmate no longer, had finished one series of radio recitals and was starting another by popular demand. Next week he will give a concert at Santiago's snooty Union Club. The University of Chile has asked him to appear as soloist next season with the Santiago Symphony...
...Order. Husky, slim-waisted Lawyer Carlos Prío might be just the man to bring about a change after four years of his predecessor's austerity. Socially popular, Prío always worked hard & long before setting out with his wife Mary for an evening of parties. Unlike high-minded Grau, who refused to believe that his appointees might graft and soldier on the job, Prío harbored no such illusions...
Professor Clarence H. Haring has left his post as Master of Dunster House. He was a popular master, and he worked conscientiously at a job which, if occasional reports coming out of the exotic wilds of Dunster House are true, was far from easy. And he brought more than this conscientiousness to the House; he gave an indefinable lift to its activities that made Dunster come as near to achieving the original objectives of the House Plan as any of the Houses, and far nearer than most...
Good Clean Sport. In Belgrade, an athlete named Dangubic, champion of a sport that has become increasingly popular in the Balkans, set a new Yugoslav record: 256½ feet for the grenade throw...