Word: populars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rumor has been circulated around Harvard that a popular English instructor who resigned about a year ago desires to return. If this is true, and if the University refuses to accept him, it will be one more example of letting wheat slip through the chaff. Because some day in the future the world may spotlight this man and Harvard try to persuade him to join the flock; then one of its worst attitudes will simply be perpetuated...
...over 20% Nazi, but in the rural provinces Austrian Nazis run up to as high as 80%. In Graz, the chief city of Lower Austria, adjoining Hungary, the Nazi flag was hoisted above the town hall last week while Schuschnigg was speaking in Vienna. Next day the locally popular Mayor claimed he had resigned before a telegram from the Chancellor demanded he take "a vacation." Graz looked like one big Nazi meeting, with Hitler's picture in every shop whose owner did not want his window smashed, with peddlers selling Nazi lapel buttons, with crowds singing the Nazi Horst...
...will be between 95 and 105. He is studying them to seek new light on the "timeworn problem of whether heredity or environment is most important in the development of personality." Most aggressive, most disobedient and greatest social lion among the five is Annette. Most popular is Yvonne who receives more attention from the others than she seeks. Most socially balanced is Marie. When one of the quins is naughty most effective punishment is isolation from the others...
...best-seller lists were what they pretend to be, they would show no change from one year to another. No matter what high-powered romances become popular for two months or two years, the Bible, the standard dictionaries and Fannie Farmer's Boston cookbook are perennially the best-selling books in the U. S. Below these three pieces of sacred and profane literature there are the new books that for convenience are called bestsellers. Each week the position of these ephemeral favorites are carefully checked. According to mysterious fluctuations in the public taste, books rise and fall in popularity...
Optimism that Germany will not act precipitately and seize Austria because it lacks sufficient popular support at home was the keynote of Marx's address. He feels that the German people has never wanted to use aggression in dealing with the problem of the German minority in Austria...