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Word: populars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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What particular people are most popular with the motion picture audience? The motion picture audience is the nation-wide voting population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 29, 1938 | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...most popular of U. S. heroes is a crusading young district attorney who cleans up dirty local politics. In real life, for half a century, he or his impersonator has turned up periodically in all parts of the U. S. In fiction his reappearances are almost continuous-twice within the last fortnight in cinema alone (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Wigwam Party | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

Contrary to the popular conception of a pitifully attenuated army, Malin Craig thinks his 163,800 enlisted men are just 16,200 less than enough. His prime concern is not over numbers but over equipment and organization. Major items in this new army's makeup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Arms Before Men | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...biggest anomaly on the curriculum was a demonstration to disprove the popular notion that driving would be made safer if governors were put on cars to limit their top speed. The students saw three demonstration cars almost pile up when a car with a governor, overtaking another, found itself with inadequate emergency power to pass quickly as another car came in the opposite direction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Safety Anomalies | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...Feminine, a rich, dilettante bachelor with "quick" green eyes, narrow forehead, "Wertherish smile," is too brightly in the manner of Virginia Woolf to be missed by the dimmest-sighted reader. But Clemence Dane has her own transformer for cutting down Virginia Woolf's voltage to serve more popular tastes: the mood of her legend comes nearer to those melancholy romances which flourished in the 90s-dark young women floating beautifully dead in lily ponds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sea Gypsy Legend | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

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