Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quickly dispelled by experts was the popular fable that magnetic mines can be drawn bodily to the victim's steel hull, by their own magnetism...
Meanwhile, inside Russia the threats came thicker & faster. Unlike anything so far seen on either side of World War II, students and workers staged great popular demonstrations in favor of war, demanding stern action against the "Finnish militarists." Moscow troops even got together and handed out statements declaring that there was a "limit to patience" and asking the Government to "bridle the [Finnish] provocateurs of war." Foreign newsmen were allowed to send out reports of huge concentrations of Soviet troops in the Leningrad district which, it was said, were ready for action. The Moscow radio called upon the Finnish people...
...London's reopened shows prospered again. Most popular were Little Dog Laughed, at the Palladium; Black Velvet, at the Hippodrome; French for Love, at the Criterion, and a revue at the Gate which features cracks about the U. S. profiteering from the war and the recent "stay-out-of-war" speech of Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...Slacks, grey flannel or corduroy, are popular at Vassar, Smith, Sarah Lawrence, are forbidden at Wellesley and Duke. Purdue co-eds like jersey culottes (pants disguised as skirts...
...Ralph Waldo Emerson Chair of Poetry,* talked to some 40 reverently attentive students at Harvard University last week. No newcomer to Harvard or to teaching, Robert Frost was successively English Professor at Amherst, and Poet in Residence at the University of Michigan; at Harvard for three years gave the popular Charles Eliot Norton poetry lectures. Harvard hopes he will sit in the Emerson Chair for at least two years...