Word: topic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Naturally, with the yen off gold, boundless State spending has already given Japan the fillip of an "inflation boom" (TIME, Jan. 2). When Japanese bankers mention the inevitable crash to Lieut.-General Araki, or indeed when any fiscal topic is broached to the War Minister, he says quietly, "That is not in my line...
There will be a Parliamentary debate open to all members of the Freshman class in the Union this evening at 7 o'clock. The topic to be debated upon is "Censorship in the United States." After the debate there will be the election of permanent officers of the Council...
Until the incident of the burst valve, chief topic of conversation on the Conte di Savoid was her $1,000,000 worth of Sperry gyroscopes, installed to keep the ship from rolling. To spite a lifeboat load of admirals, engineers, and college technicians who crossed on the Conte di Savoia to observe their gyro-stabilizers' action, seas remained resolutely calm, and the gyros had no fair test. One day, to show what they could do, the stabilizers were purposely reversed, rocked the ship 10°. Apart from stability, speed is the great feature of the Conte di Savoia...
...Classical Traditions Dryden and Johnson," will be the subject of the third of the Norton Lectures, to be given tonight at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall by T. S. Eliot '10, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry. The general topic of the lecture series, "The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism,' will be considered from the standpoint of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century poets...
...lectures on "Local Government in the United States" will be given by Murray Seasongood '00, former Mayor of Cincinnati, this afternoon at 4 o'clock in Emerson D. In his lecture Seasongood, who has previously outlined the political regeneration of Cincinnati had Hamilton County, Ohio, will discuss the general topic of hindrances and helps in achieving good government...