Word: populars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yale instituted its method of using machines to decide assignment to upper-class "colleges" because 80 per cent of the Freshmen were applying to the two "popular" colleges, leaving the remaining eight with virtually no applications...
Such oratory and such thinking were enough last week to win a smashing electoral victory at the polls for Strijdom: his Nationalists increased their control of the House of Assembly to 103 of the 163 seats though their popular victory was by no means so decisive since they benefit from 50-year-old electoral laws which favor the hinterland. The United Party, which is as segregationist as Strijdom but talks of "white leadership with justice," increased its representation by one, to 53, but its party leader, Sir De Villiers Graaff, lost his gerrymandered seat to a Nationalist candidate. Minor political...
After digging for several months, Dr. Howell figured out why the ancient lake was so popular with ancient man. About 10,000 years ago, he thinks, Tanganyika had a capricious climate. During rainy periods, the lowland plains and valleys were good places to live. Animals preferred them to the hills, and ancient human hunters stayed near the animals. The upland lake was deep during rainy periods, and its bottom collected a layer of clay, but it had no attraction...
...rationalistic pamphleteering is still far from superfluous. Neither the great mass of people nor their highest leaders have evidently yet caught up with the thought of the eighteenth century. Russell performs a real service by reiterating the unrefuted arguments of Voltaire and Hume which, seemingly out of sheer ignorance, popular Christianity has chosen to ignore...
...whatever its virtues as a piece of popular literature, Why I Am Not A Christian will probably fail in academic circles because it takes no note of the two main nineteenth-century developments in theology, which theologians have done little but elaborate ever since...