Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...margin of expansion in the fact that the rooms are not always used up to their full capacity, to take advantage of this small leeway would prove very difficult and would involve many undesirable features. Otherwise, the only recourse would be to multiply the number of afternoon classes, already unpopular among both professors and students...
...facts of what the Prince saw are unpalatable both to the Government and to the powerful interests that support the present administration. The Prince of Wales is distinctly unpopular with the mine owners. Something like consternation has been caused among them at what the Prince revealed on his tour. It is a serious coincidence that almost before the Prince returned to London a regular newspaper barrage was laid down [by the Conservatives] with a view to discounting as far as possible the facts as to the condition of the miners that were put under the searchlight of the Prince...
...Reinhardt, like all great theatrical impresarios, possesses the most subtle of all talents, that of recognizing genius. It was a question of time until Moissi should become famous; at first, his Italian accent made him unpopular; then, little and ugly and sad, he became a matinee idol; at last German critics, who are to other critics as the snail is to the turtle, awarded him their approval...
...establish complete liberty of the press. We shall discuss stabilization of the currency and negotiate a foreign loan. We shall revise the present obnoxious anti-foreign mining law passed by [the late] Prime Minister Jon Bratiano in 1924, as well as other laws which have made Rumania a most unpopular country abroad. We shall abolish restrictions on foreign capital, which henceforth shall have the same opportunities as local capital...
...easy part, for everything he said sounded mad enough, concerning as it did another, and therefore impossible world. The elder, interpreting these mad oracular utterances as convenient, found his Sacred Lunatic a useful alternative for the tribal totems, miniature sloths, to whose whispered advices all unpopular policies were attributed. These wriggly, but sacred, little animals were distantly related to the race of Great Ground Sloths, evil-smelling Megatheria, who persisted though they did not reproduce...