Word: populars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...making an independent contribution at an early age is far greater than in the humanities or the social sciences. There must be no application of the standards of one field to the problems of another, and publication alone cannot be accepted as the measure of achievement, nor should popular success be allowed to outweigh the judgment of professionally competent opinion. The presence in the upper ranks of the faculty of a few professors who are apparently exempt from the usual research requirements is not a very conspicuous phenomenon at Harvard, but it is demoralizing to the younger...
...early in the season, practically all the top-crust three-year-olds were in the parade to the post. Favorite was Airman William Boeing's Porter's Mite, the handsome bay colt who outshone all his contemporaries in the classic Belmont Futurity last autumn. Almost as popular was Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Impound, son of famed Sun Beau, who beat Porter's Mite in a short handicap race at Santa Anita two weeks before. The twelve others, proudly prancing to the starting line, were expected to fight it out for third place...
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...Institute's scientists conclude that Democracy, Fascism and Communism in their present forms contain so many frustrations that unless they reform, all three forms of society face the danger of popular revolt...
Died. Hirosi Saito, 52, onetime (1934-38) Japanese Ambassador to the U. S.; of tuberculosis; in Washington. A gay little man whose wife likened him to a tireless, leaping carp, Ambassador Saito was the youngest, most popular Japanese Ambassador ever to come to Washington. After the sinking of the Panay, which he called a "shocking blunder," he took the unprecedented course of apologizing over the radio, canceled all engagements, cried: "I'm in the doghouse...