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Word: popularized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Worse violence was reported Saturday in Xian and Changsha. The state-run Xinhua News Agency said rioters in Xian, a popular tourist city and capital of northwestern China's Shaanxi province, forced their way into the provincial government compound and burned buildings and vehicles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chinese Students Plan to Boycott Classes | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

Americans are no less fascinated by the allure of aphrodisiacs. Some claim to use Spanish fly, a powder made from the blister beetle, but it is poisonous and can kill you. The ginseng root, long a staple among Asians, is popular in the U.S. But nobody has yet bottled the genuine article, and until that happens, one simple rule will continue to apply: a tiger's penis or powdered peacock bones are aphrodisiacs only if you think they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Aphrodite Was No Lady | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...Marvin, Director of Collegium Musicum and of Choral Activities at Harvard University, St. Matthew's Passion represents the height of Baroque music and masterpieces. Marvin says that Bach makes use of all contemporary music forms, including the aria, ariosa, recitative and the accompanied and a cappeila choruses that were popular at the time...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Passion in Sanders | 4/21/1989 | See Source »

Many scientists express grave concern over the hype they say the press has inserted into the fusion discoveries. Many note the wild tales of levitating trains that circulated in the popular press when high-temperature superconductors were discovered two years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scientists Debate Press' Reporting | 4/20/1989 | See Source »

...Government Department is the most popular undergraduate concentration. That popularity should not have to be gender specific...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Opening the Classroom | 4/18/1989 | See Source »

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