Word: popularly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...various lines of missionary activity, he has made four trips around the world as well as many more shorter travels. During his stay in each country visited, he has been able through his position of trust to gain an inside view of the national affairs, and political and popular feelings of each nation. In recognition of his services in missionary and international enterprises, the University of Edinburgh conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. in June...
...days gone by, debating was one of the popular sports of the college. The class debates were heralded events. Their coming was marked by placards. The debaters actually had audiences before which to exhibit their skill. But the art has fallen into desuetude...
...Relations, in his address last evening to the Chinese students of Greater Boston at the meeting of the Cosmopolitan Club in Phillips Brooks House. "It would be a very good thing if Chinese students in this country would contribute to our magazines and correct some of the wrong, but popular, impressions in regard to their native land...
...next week Widener Library will be more popular than the "movies" as the loafer and the grind sit side by side busily at work,--the latter to make that "A" a certainty, the former to fill his head with just enough knowledge to secure those two C--'s, and thus convince both faculty and family that he is a student in good standing...
Perhaps the most popular of war books is "Over the Top." Last summer the R. O. T. C. found it cursory reading of a delightful kind. The author will speak in Symphony Hall this evening, so that members of the Corps who do not go will be haunted for days by, "You ought to have been there." Notebooks should be left at home, for at this lecture seriousness is censored. "The Role of the High Command" is not so much the subject as "The Role of Thomas Atkins...