Word: topic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foot on Trinidad. Until last week, in fact, no U. S. President ever did so. Yet on the morning of Franklin Roosevelt's arrival at Port of Spain neither was he mentioned on the front page of any local paper nor was he the chief topic of conversation among the islanders. Trinidaddies that day were thinking and talking about their ex-King and Mrs. Simpson...
...immediately after the fraud was discovered. Vermonters began to wonder if their Governor was not guilty of another error when he failed to raise his voice against Embezzler Cocklin at the time he was appointed Rutland's assistant city treasurer. With the Governor's errors the chief topic of conversation in the Green Mountain State, State's Attorney Bloomer dug deeper into the defalcation. In the months that followed, Lathrop H. Baldwin, treasurer of the bank, and two other officers were arrested for the part State's Attorney Bloomer said they played in hushing...
...second of a series of trial debates designed to prepare members for intercollegiate contests later in the year, the Union Debating Council, in its meeting held in the upper common room of the Union last night, used as the topic for discussion: "Resolved That students should be prohibited from attending tutoring schools...
...campus tonight is crowded with old grads. The only topic of conversation is the game tomorrow. Such gathering places as the Hotel Taft lobby and the Graduate Club are scenes of unusual festivity and gayety. The air is pervaded with a keen excitement and strains of Yale and Harvard football songs reach the ear from all quarters. The only anxiety which is in evidence is over the weather situation, as rooters for both sides have absolute confidence in the powers of their respective teams. Eyes are constantly turned toward the sky where a misty moon gives some hope...
...second semester a student should be able to follow his own bent more thoroughly than he can at the present time, and allow his imagination freer play in criticism, poetry, journalism, or wherever his interest lies. In addition, several weeks might be devoted to speech-making upon any topic the student elected, for organization of ideas are similar in both oral and written expression...