Word: populars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duty on tobacco was increased 21%, which will mean that a package of popular priced cigarets will now cost about 27? instead of 25? as at present. Another effect: some 350,000 cigaret-vending machines (used mainly after 7 p. m. when all tobacco shops by law must close) are now obsolete...
...curtain fell yesterday on another Harvard teaching career when Louis Allard, professor of French, gave his last lecture in French 7, "Romanticism and Realism in French Literature of the Nineteenth Century." For years Professor Allard has been one of the lecturers in French 6, popular French literature survey course. Yesterday he delivered in French his last remarks as an active teacher...
...mentor of English 21 on sixteenth century literature has given several of the most popular courses in the English Department during his long career here. At one time his course on Romantic and Victorian Poets was one of the most heavily enrolled course in the Department...
...have become part of our lives after separation from their "ism" tag. Public regulation of schools, recreational centers, agriculture or business, once considered "dangerous," is now an accepted government function, and public ownership of railroads and coal mines, which was downright mutiny in 1890, has gradually come into popular favor. Hays predicts that "more and more the income of the citizen will be taken by the state and used for social purposes...
Professor Mott examines the founding and passing of the periodicals; the phenomenon of a shifting popular favor; tendencies in circulation, advertising, payment of authors and editors; costs of publication; and the development of class journals...