Word: popularly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...DEPARTMENT of "Notes and Queries" has just been started at the Library. The queries are written on slips, and hung on books provided for the purpose, and any one is at liberty to answer them. The idea has become very popular, and will probably be useful, though to judge from the queries, their authors might easily have found the answers on their own hook, without having recourse to the hooks of the Library...
...final tug of war between '79 and '81 will be contested to-morrow. This sport is already exceedingly popular, perhaps owing to its novelty, but there can be no doubt that where the classes are so directly opposed to each other, the emulation is far greater than under other conditions...
...formed a suitable introduction to the recitative and aria, "Abscheulicher," from Beethoven's only opera. We have, however, heard this aria sung with more feeling, and voices of better timbre, on the stage in Germany. Miss Wilde is said to be a fine actress, and to have been more popular once than even Materna. She must have had a fine voice when she was Prima Donna soprano at the Imperial Opera House of Vienna, but fine voices seldom last long. Her greatest merit now seems to be a distinct articulation, as we could easily follow her words, especially when...
...writer makes no reference to the "wine-clubs" which, until within a few years, were very popular at both the universities. He thinks there is much more drunkenness and licentiousness at Cambridge and Oxford than among an equal number of American students...
...after being won three successive times by the same man, it should become his private property. The distance in each case should be such as to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of the sprinter and the long-distance man. A Hundred-Yard Challenge Cup would prove very popular, as comparatively little training would be required...