Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While not politically of much power, the royal family nevertheless has strong adherents in the Army and Navy. Crown Prince Umberto is regarded as an Army man, faithfully appears at Army functions. No legislation of II Duce has been more unpopular than his anti-Jewish decrees, and in no place were they more unpopular than in the Navy...
MURDER MASKS MIAMI-Rufus King-Crime Club ($2). Lieutenant Valcour gets a killer who uses a murderous hypo on two unpopular women-an ultra-respectable old lady and a blackmailing young golddigger. Swift, breezy, tongue-in-cheek tale...
...there is traditionally at Harvard a prejudice against that which suggests, even remotely, Joe College. Joseph is an unpopular man in an institution as heterogeneous as Harvard; that brand of indifference arising out of the cross-sectional character of the undergraduate body is generally thought to be in conflict with the homogeneous collegiatism essential to a successful class affair. Perhaps more rational is the fear that a single prom of Cecil B. DeMille proportions would appeal only to a limited class of persons, and thus actually would not be a "class" dance--in the usual sense--at all. Miscellaneous objections...
...decade he became more powerful, lost his fervor for reform. He would embrace any policy to enhance his prestige, but his prestige slowly waned. He was bitterly disappointed when his efforts to keep the U. S. from siding with the Allies proved unpopular with the public...
...finances. Since it is not operated for a profit, the Clinic has no funds for expansion; because the University budget has been reduced in all departments, no aid can be expected from that source; and the dream of an all-wise, beneficent alumnus has not yet materialized. Unpopular as it would doubtless be, a general tax on the student body appears to be the only practical solution; it would amount to only two dollars per student if levied on graduate men as well as the undergraduate body. No less pressing than the most urgent cavity, the problem cries for solution...