Word: topic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Planets" is the subject of L. H. Campbell, who will lecture on October 18. Dr. A. J. Cannon will give a speech on the topic of "New Stars" on October 24. The final lecture of the series will be given on October 27 by Professor S. J. Bailey, who will talk on the subject of "Star Clouds and Nebulae...
...series of five "open nights" on the general topic of astronomy will be held at the Harvard College Observatory during the month of October. Lectures will be given on each of the nights by various speakers under the auspices of the Bond Astronomical Club...
Peace. As forecast (TIME, Sept, 12) peace was the main topic of discussion in the Assembly deliberations. The speeches of the week, however, resolved themselves into long-winded bursts of impotent oratory, no matter how brilliant and forceful they may be viewed from a literary standpoint. Poland brought forward a plan: 1) Any recourse to war in order to settle international disputes is and remains forbidden. 2) Every dispute of whatever nature arising between states or nations cannot be settled except by pacific means. In consequence, the Assembly urges members of the League to take action on these declarations...
That general disarmament would be a major topic of debate in the Assembly was taken to be a foregone conclusion. Postponement of the Prepatory Commission could not fail to evoke a protest from unarmed (comparatively speaking) Germany, who takes the position that all the signatories of the Treaty of Versailles are under equal obligations to disarm...
Unity. A comprehensive topic of the whole conference was discussed in plenary session "The Unity of Christendom." The Most Rev. Nathan Soderblom, Archbishop of Upsala, Sweden, himself the organizer of a Universal Conference on Life & Work (TIME, Aug. 24, 1925, et seq.) paralleling Bishop Brent's assembly on Faith & Order, reiterated the idea that all sects should be able to regard themselves and each other as chapters of a single Church...