Word: populars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With skiing again coming to the front as one of the most popular of winter sports, skiing resorts and ski outfitters are making up for the disappointing season of last year. Every day more and more new enthusiastic disciples are won to the Norwegian sport...
Born 50 years ago in Australia, George Eric MacDonnell Jauncey arrived in the U. S. in 1914, studied at Lehigh, joined the Washington University staff in 1920. He likes detective stories and P. G. Wodehouse, is the author of some 75 technical articles and of Modern Physics, a popular college textbook. He realizes quite well the need for further checking of his findings. "I'm out on a limb now," he said philosophically last week. "I hope this thing stands up." He also said that he had got his original hunch while reading TIME'S story...
...Most popular U. S. adult educational radio program is NBC's America's Town Meeting of the Air. Its weekly Thursday audience is estimated at some 3,000,000. Last week it hit a new high when Utilities Man Wendell L. Wilkie and Assistant U. S. Attorney General Robert H. Jackson debated "How Can Government and Business Work Together?" With-in 36 hours 1,300 letters, six times any previous response, had poured into Manhattan's Town Hall, where the program originates...
Priestley; produced by Crosby Gaige). Author John Boynton Priestley is a blunt Yorkshireman who has written several popular books, of late years has turned to playwriting. Three of his plays are currently on the London stage. Last week one of them,*another attempt to dramatize that old riddle, time, failed to impress Manhattan audiences either as drama or as metaphysics. Time and the Conways was like a heavy slab of Yorkshire pudding with no roast beef...
...from being a little group of impractical idealists, its leaders are far-sighted political strategists. There are a number of good arguments against the war referendum; but taken as a whole they are unconvincing, especially when we consider the amendment's strategic value in giving an opportunity for a popular expression of peace sentiment. In going the rounds from state to state it would have provided over a period of years a new and efficient means of counteracting some of the powerful forces leading to intervention in a very possible European war. It is disgraceful reflection upon the pretended undergraduate...