Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theme of the Chamber's convention, chosen by President Lewis Eugene Pierson, was "Teamwork for Prosperity." The speakers spun many a variation thereanent, on competition (War), Federal regulation (Politics), commercial integrity (Ethics). Secondary to these considerations were the speeches on economics. The high point of the week came when the Chamber passed a resolution occasioned by the Rockefeller-Stewart controversy in the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana...
...predecessors, this book represents rather an interpretation of history. The author conceives of history not as a landscape dominated by a few peaks of great attainments, but as a stream which is flowing constantly onward, running faster, perhaps, at some times than at others. Evolution is the central theme of his book, and he selects for treatment those salient facts which testify to the evolutionary process. This choice limits the range of factual discussion, and the principle governing the choice distinguishes the book from other works which try to compress much into little...
Subsequent diversions for Their Majesties included a horse race at the Moscow Hippodrome and a gala performance at the onetime Imperial Opera of the Communist Ballet Red Poppy, the theme of which is the present Chinese civil war (see China...
...Reading Period's agenda, and seemingly only one, remains a theme of speculation: the suspension of tutorial conferences. Although any characteristic attitude is as rare among tutors as it is among students in Harvard College, there has been in both groups a slight but perceptible diminishment in the belief that such segregation would give completely mutual benefit...
...theme of the play is just a bit nasty-mother love perverted to a selfish maternal obsession, or in other words the mother-in-law problem taken seriously, and treated almost savagely...