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Word: unpopular (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was a day in the history of Stillman Infirmary when students hated to go there because they thought they were not treated right by the staff: the doctors were unpopular for their medicines, the nurses for their manner of approach. Indeed the nurses were considered tyrannical, nothing short of petty martinettes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/29/1937 | See Source »

...members of each House. At the same time the vital interests of the Houses will be consulted by having the Masters voice their approval of the intra-mural managers who are selected. In this way no House will be consigned to athletic oblivion through the appointment of incompetent or unpopular managers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTRA-MURAL MONEY | 4/23/1937 | See Source »

...written. Her books since then have been a continuous disappointment. Last week she annoyed, depressed and bored nearly everyone in sight with a 488-page novel "on the artist and the creative problem." Bread and a Sword was Evelyn Scott's third exhaustive mangling of the same unpopular theme; readers cheered her announcement that it was likely to be her last word on the subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dead Scott | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...unpopular decisions in the medley and relay deprived the Crimson from capturing second place in the meet. As things were Hutter, Graham Cummin '38, and A. Gregory Jameson '37 teamed to take a second in the first of these two events, with Captain John J. Colony '37, Donald Barker '38, Dario C. Berizzi '38, and Hutter gathering fourth place in the relay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HUTTER GAINS TITLE; TEAM FINISHES THIRD | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...good reason why he had no such intention was that the best remembered precedent for it was Woodrow Wilson's stumping expedition for the League of Nations. To that method belonged the stigma of failure and the bad aftertaste of an unpopular issue. Another reason was that if Franklin Roosevelt made such a tour it would be construed as an admission that the fate of his Court plan was precarious. Best reason of all was that Franklin Roosevelt had something that Woodrow Wilson did not have: the all-pervasive radio. He had scheduled a radio "fireside talk" for next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: No Buchanan | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

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