Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lecture Hall. Mr. Thomas and the Socialist Party are opposing the whole national defense program, including conscription, and are advocating a peaceful transition to state socialism. This is just about the only real opposition the Roosevelt-Willkie foreign policy faces. It is an academic opposition, as well as an unpopular one, and appropriately enough will end its efforts in a very academic place. All the more reason why we should listen to it, in these days when freedom of speech and thought is being threatened...
...class will contribute only one mind-reader to the world, psychology appearing to be an unpopular field, and only two anthropologists will be let loose to compete with Hooton...
When Winston Churchill created a new ministry for him four months ago, Lord Beaverbrook considered himself the most unpopular man in Britain. In 31 years since he had gone over from Canada, a rich Colonial with a twangy voice and a wardrobe of loud suits, he had been phenomenally successful as a publisher, fairly successful in politics, utterly unsuccessful in getting himself widely liked. He was an outlander and he could get things done, and for one thing as much as the other stodgy Britons mistrusted him. In Britain "brilliant" is an opprobrious term...
...Lohr's ideas of popular science were unpopular with many top-notch scientists. Coldly received last week was his definition of the object of science & industry: "to supply better goods cheaper." Sniffed scholarly Nobel Prizewinner Dr. Arthur Holly Compton, dean of physical sciences at University of Chicago: "Faraday, as he discovered the laws of electricity, which are basic to electrical engineering, was not concerned with making better things cheaper. . . . A tragedy has occurred in the cultural life of our city...
Back to Russia aboard a Soviet freighter bound for Vladivostok went "Big Joe," unpopular, 60-foot, stainless-steel statue of a worker that last year surmounted the Russian Pavilion at New York World's Fair...