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Word: populars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Economics 10, "Principles of Economics," once again ranked as the most popular undergraduate course, and economics emerged as the most popular concentration after a one-year absence from the top slot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the wonderful folks who brought you My Lai | 6/8/1978 | See Source »

Quincy House was the most popular House in this year's freshman housing poll, surpassing last year's favorite, Leverett. The freshman also displayed a marked distaste for concrete, ranking Mather House last among the River Houses, ahead of only perennial tailhangers North and South...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Must be all those pinball machines | 6/8/1978 | See Source »

...image of teams of white-coated neurosurgeons descending on America's ghettos, intent on weeding out those with faulty brains and patching up their neurological circuitry. Fortunately, the physicians' suggestions never got far beyond the theoretical stage, although in 1970 Mark and Ervin did come out with a semi-popular book entitled Violence and the Brain, intended to advance the notion that, as Sweet writes in the introduction, "one way to understand and control the current colossal problem of violence is to increase our knowledge of brain mechanisms...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: A Mental Block | 6/7/1978 | See Source »

Nearly one out of every three alumnae who opt for employment is going into business or industry, a ten-per-cent increase from 1976. About 15 per cent of those choosing work enter jobs in the media or education, traditionally the most popular field...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Radcliffe Survey Reveals More Alumnae Working, Delaying Graduate Studies | 6/6/1978 | See Source »

...spotlight, must be even stronger than it is for the athletes. In sports someone will eventually beat you--even Muhammad Ali learned that. But in music you can go on as long as you are able to play or sing. All you have to do is remain popular. The Band's decision to hang it up, at least to hang it up in public, seems even more laudable. The group may well have been sick of the road, as Robertson indicated, but it isn't easy to give up your bread and butter...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: The Medicine Show Packs Up | 6/6/1978 | See Source »

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