31.   Once a synonym for muggings and murder in the popular imagination, Central Park had become one of the safest precincts in New York.

32.   Occupying a highly visible site on the Chicago River, just north of the Loop, Marina City seized the popular imagination as a symbol of civic bravura.

33.   Parson Weems made up the cherry tree story, and lots of others about Washington now found in paintings, on postage stamps and in the popular imagination.

34.   Prostate cancer is capturing the popular imagination partly because there is more of it.

35.   Sailors, in the popular imagination, were smokers and were also used to advertise tobacco.

36.   Serious researchers discarded this one long ago, but it lives on in the popular imagination.

37.   Some analysts say celebrities loom even larger in the popular imagination because many people, struggling in a flat economy with stagnant wages, need the diversion celebrities offer.

38.   Storage is hardly a technology that captures the popular imagination.

39.   The ban on splitting infinitives was firmly planted in the popular imagination.

40.   The first place to look, they said, are the technology companies that have captured so much of the popular imagination.