Word: popularity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...popular beliefs which she wished to erase: 1) that she is "a great knitter"; 2) that she keeps house for her father...
...peak of undergraduate attainment, and from that the scale of values grades down through the lesser sports, through the glee and mandolin clubs, the dramatic society and the comic weekly to the bottom of scholastic excellence. Education, the nominal object of every college student, plays second fiddle in the popular estimate to the development of those attributes that make the "mixer...
...Well, I haven't been recording for Victor long, and don't expect immediate success. Still, my older records were very popular, and I hope the new ones will...
...hour at Ford Hall men whose scholarship and experience fit them to speak with authority on the subject. The meeting will be one of the first attempts in this vicinity to make a reasonable and intelligent protest against what is now considered the abuse of censorship. Hitherto when a popular play or book has been banned, the only effect has unfortunately been a good deal of mud-slinging by those on either side of the question, without any effort to fight on common ground. That there should be some assembly whose function would be to discuss and criticize matters that...
According to figures given out by the Department of Physical Education at Wadsworth House, tennis has displaced crew as the most popular Freshman sport. Although there are 208 candidates for crew positions this year, an increase of one over 1928 and 11 over 1927, tennis has gained 31 in the last two years to take top honors with 214 candidates...