Word: topic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most important activities of the conference is the formation of discussion groups which deal with problems in much the same way as does the Williams conference on world affairs which has been active for several years. Each group takes one topic a day, and under the leadership of a group chairman thoroughly investigates the subject...
Neurotics are the favorite topic of dreary modern fiction. Bilby's Doll is a neurotic whose hallucinations are logically built upon the terrific shock of her childhood. But the lore of her witchcraft, and the superstitions of her New England neighbors, lift her out of the psychiatric laboratory into the worthy realm of fiction. Author Forbes formalizes her fantastics with a prose borrowed in part from the 17th century when witches were common subject of puritanical debate...
Precisely when and how Rachele Guidi and Benito Mussolini were married is still a topic for active speculation. A delayed civil marriage appears to have been followed by a still further delayed religious ceremony. But the union was fruitful from the first. Daughter Edda Mussolini is now 17, son Vittorio, 11, son Bruno 10, and Babe Romano Mussolini is aged six months...
...preliminaries for the France Amerique Medal Speaking Contest in French on any topic relating to France will take place in Sever 36 on the evening of May 4, at 8 o'clock, and the finals in Paine Hall on May 25, at 8 o'clock...
...state the spiritual values of non-Christian systems of religion; it will review Confucianism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Islamism from a sympathetic point of view. Then it will try to reach a more profound understanding of interdependence between the younger Churches, especially in Asia, and the older Churches. Another topic to be considered is the impact of industrialism upon Asia and Africa. These are questions which have often been discussed before, though perhaps never by a group so well equipped to arrive at satisfactory answers. This is a council of commanders, a council primarily of action, to determine the important strategies...