Word: topic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theme of the lecture was a favorite Fisher topic, Gold...
These cold, metallic conceits were fired at the tousled heads of a delegation of Marxist agrarian workers (i. e., farmers), whom Dictator Stalin was addressing on the stirring topic: Destroying the Kulak or Rich Farmer as a Class...
...second topic, intercollegiate sport, is treated by President Lowell in the light of analogies that are at least thought-provoking. As an ideal, the Greek principle of a single extensive meet, with the interest rather on the universal, well-rounded development, than on the single event or the specialized group of performers, is far preferable to the Roman love of the spectacle. But unfortunately no such classical wave as the former would imply can be envisioned in this day. The Greeks lacked bands, uniforms, college songs; they lacked the inter-relation of sports and business that makes the autumn...
...this eruption of talk was most bothersome to President Hoover. It was a topic he had hoped to muffle away while his commission studied it and many another matter. Wets kept out of the hubbub while Drys waged a factional war. Around Washington spread a belief that professional prohibitors in Congress really suspected the commission might recommend changes...