Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were ever on the watch to catch their pupils in the midst of their misdemeanors. Each instructor was assigned to guard a certain section of the town. Many of the "cops" even went so far as to disguise themselves in an attempt to trap unwary students. This method, proving unpopular as well as ineffective, was discarded in favor of a somewhat primitive "honor system", accompanied by a process known as "reading the catalogue". This meant going through the list of students at faculty meetings to see if anybody had "something on" each student...
...years a big league baseball pitcher, crack spitballer of the St. Louis Cardinals (National League champions); by Mrs. Florence Ruth Grimes; at Canton, Ohio. Charge: he was cruel, gossiped, wrote to other women. Last December Grimes unsuccessfully sued Mrs. Grimes for divorce. He alleged she gossiped, made him unpopular with the team...
Roger and Harry grew up in the same small town, went to school and college together, were always friends. Harry was popular, ordinary, successful. Roger was unpopular, unsuccessful; otherwise quite like Harry. When they graduated from their Philadelphia college both entered the same architect's office. When the War came Harry enlisted, for no good reason; Roger stayed at home because he thought war was silly and architecture not, eventually married one of Harry's girls. He and Alice had a hard time, because Roger's architectural ideas were a little too pure to be successful, also because his mind...
...elect Fethi to Parliament. By order of Prime Minister Ismet Pasha, who was going to be ousted by the coming "crisis." Smyrna police used whips on the rabble to make them turn out at the polls. They could vote, the police told them, either for an obscure and locally unpopular candidate offered by Dictator Kemal's own "Peoples' Republican Party" or for the eminent and honored Fethi Bey, founder-candidate of the new "Liberal Republican Party." When some of the rabble began to howl "Bread, bread!", protesting that in their misery they did not want to vote, police...
...certain tasks in a certain length of time. The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act set forth that within 90 days of its passage President Hoover must appoint a new Tariff Commission of three Democrats, three Republicans (TIME, Sept. 1 et seq.). Moreover the President, bold in defense of the unpopular bill, promised 1) to appoint more expert and impartial economists than had composed the old Commission, 2) to issue educational bulletins from time to time explaining the tariff and its beneficent "flexibility...