Word: topic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What price can you give me on Lonely Lady in the Fourth," was his topic...
...topic is "The Selective Principle in Education in a Democracy." The President left last Friday and has already spoken before the Harvard Club of Detroit on Saturday, and the Harvard Club of Milwaukee last night...
After six weeks of vacation and reading period the Hilary Term has begun. Most conversation these days starts with some reference to that evergreen topic, the inclement weather and ends with a sharing of vacation experiences or with some witty comment on the escape of three wolves from the Oxford Zoo. The last wolf was shot today, so sheep once more can graze with peace and the Oxford girls ride their bicycles and stay out after dark...
Prizeman Rockefeller also acts with notable success as weather adviser for Howard Hughes. ¶ Aviation is a trade magazine eager to call attention to the little famed but highly important topic of maintenance. To 36-year-old Walter Andrew Hamilton, maintenance superintendent of Transcontinental & Western Air, it gave a bronze plaque for being a leader in maintenance improvement, being first to develop a maintenance manual as efficient as the operation procedure, first to insist that aircraft makers design not only from a flight aspect but also with an eye to ease of maintenance. At Kansas City, hefty Prizeman Hamilton heads...
...three exercises in delivery are the content, along with five major speeches sandwiched between lectures on subjects like persuasion and commanding attention. The semester is capped, mirabile dictu, by a written examination. Thus in effect the sole course, English F tries to accomplish too much, skimming lightly over each topic and leaving the majority of students barely grounded in fundamentals...