Word: popularly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Havre de Grace. Friends who thought his heart was in the right place never accused him of having his heart in his work. So when Louis Capozzoli decided to run for Congress from the Thirteenth District, Christy had no trouble making up his mind to retire. Louis Capozzoli was popular and might have been hard to beat. By retiring, Christy could continue as leader of Tammany Hall and go on dreaming his beautiful dream of a Tammany returned to power in Manhattan. But not if he were beaten in the Democratic primary by Louis Capozzoli. Like generals...
...Staff, General Papagos saw to it that Greece's 18-month compulsory training for all males between 21 and 50 was no child's play. King George II, after his restoration in 1935 by a military junta of which Papagos was a member, made the Army popular by insisting on clean barracks. But it was the combined, concentrated brains of Metaxas and Papagos which evolved the mountain strategy and tactics now bearing such startling fruit. Last week Norwegian mountain troops journeyed from Great Britain to get in on the Greek show, and the Swiss applied for permission...
...accused teachers were among the best and most popular in the college...
...training camps along the West Coast, thousands of soldiers were down with flu. At Fort Lewis, Wash., about 1,400 men were confined to tents and canvas field hospitals. Popular treatment: an aspirin and a glass of gin. ^ In Hollywood almost half of the movie stars were sick in bed. Some who went to work wore surgeons' masks for protection...
Ever since the days of Hippocrates (400 B.C.), huge tides of flu have washed the world. Contrary to popular opinion, the epidemics have not always run in cycles of 20 years. In modern times the span between them seems to be around three decades. A wave of flu inundated Europe and the U. S. during the 1830s; others followed in 1847, 1889. Greatest epidemic in history was the scourge of 1918-19, which killed more than 20,000,000 people all over the world, more than half a million in the U. S. alone. Last year Ihe Journal...