Word: populars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special field of American Government, course 7a and b should follow Government 1. They concern the Politics and Administration of the National Government. The material in 7a is largely covered in course 1, but 7b is new and more practical material. Holcombe is popular in both these courses...
Rats are not generally considered either popular or useful animals. But to scientists, who use them for biological and psychological experiments, they are both. In many laboratories, in which dozens of rats are kept in one cage, it is essential that they be marked in some way so that any one rat can quickly be singled out from all the other rats. Labels attached to the rats or marks painted on them are not entirely satisfactory. A more popular method is notching or perforating the ears according to a code. Another is cutting off various combinations of toes, or different...
...Britain, most popular television stunts have been telecasts of public events like tennis matches, boat races, fights, the Coronation. Recently, Londoners saw BBC Commentator Thomas Woodrooffe eat his hat before the television camera to keep a promise made in a sports broadcast. The hat was made of sugar-coated cake...
Fastest climbing musical instrument in popular favor, according to trade statistics, is the piano accordion. Last year piano accordion sales took second place only to piano sales, accounted for $19,000,000 worth of business. There are at least 400,000 piano accordion players in the U. S. Their instrument, a more complicated and efficient descendant of the old-fashioned concertina, is really a small piano keyboard grafted on to an accordion...
...transmission poles to best-seller ranks and Hollywood. Though Slim seemed a little too slick for its subject, it nevertheless subordinated romance to accurate descriptions of a dramatic trade and the lusty linemen who follow it. High Tension, first published in the Saturday Evening Post, is wired for more popular tastes, reverses the proportions of romance and realism...