Word: topic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would arrest Mr. Gandhi when he should reach the sea and evaporate a gallon or two of water for a pinch of salt, thus breaking the law which makes salt a British monopoly in India. Pausing at the village of Tresela, St. Gandhi made a speech (characteristically) on a topic which had nothing to do with his main object of starting by example his long prepared campaign of "Indian mass civil disobedience." The subject: Child Marriage...
...last 100 feet of the 225-foot power plant chimney now being demolished may be knocked down by heavy weights swung by a derrick, it was disclosed yesterday by the American Wreeking Company. Another method which the company may use to topic the pile is known as "burning under". Five wooden blocks, soaked with gasoline, are inserted in the base, the surrounding bricks being removed. Two of the blocks are then ignited, and the stack falls...
Candidates will be expected to write extemporaneously, in the examination room, an essay on a topic chosen by themselves from a list of subjects dealing with economics and political science, not previously announced...
...will be recorded that, in the eleventh year of its existence, Prohibition became a circulation-getter, instead of just a topic for debate, among U. S. magazines...
Candidates are expected to write extemporaneously, in the examination room, an essay on a topic chosen by themselves from a list of subjects dealing with economics and political science which has not previously been announced...