Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ability as a vaudeville comedian is proverbial, as is his knack for putting across solid material with an interesting touch. He is also liked in the physical courses, 2 and 22, where he is probably the foremost authority in the country. Although top notch in physical anthropology, Hooton is unpopular in 4a, his only course in the social half of the field. Coon, in 4b, is considered far superior...
Laval is the father of Vichyfrench collaboration with Hitler and served as Vice Premier and Foreign Minister for the first six months after the fall of France. But in December 1940 Pétain found him at once so unpopular and so highhanded in his pro-Naziism that he cast him into outer darkness. His return to power is a tip-off of further collaboration to come, focussing all eyes again on the French fleet (see p. 23) which may hold the balance of sea power today...
Army & Navy procurement officers, not wanting to take the zip out of production, are almost as opposed to a statutory limit on war profits as businessmen are. Businessmen, not wanting to be unpopular or unpatriotic, are almost as eager to avoid excessive war profits as Congressmen are. So last week, while Congressmen reconsidered a bill to limit all war-contract profits to 10% or less, the Army & Navy quietly perfected a technique of profit control that businessmen could understand...
With our armed forces at one of the lowest ebbs of the war, this is probably the most unpopular time a post-war "planner" could pick to air his findings. But if anyone thinks that we will be able to take those problems in our stride when we come to them, he had better take a gander at what is going to happen to the so-called "industry of the future," when the smoke clears away...
Going to Summer School is generally about as unpopular and unpleasant as handing in English A themes. But the bolstered-up requirements of the accelerated program are going to make those extra two courses that can be picked up during July and August mighty important to a lot of people. They're apt to mean the difference between getting a degree and entering the Army a couple of courses short of the University's graduation requisites...