Word: topic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whose oil, natural-gas and farmland interests give him an income of $200,000 a day, Facts Forum billed itself as a "nonpartisan, nonpolitical educational organization." But in its monthly Facts Forum News (reported circ. 100,000), a clutter of radio and TV shows, e.g., Reporters' Roundup, Topic of the Week, and widely distributed "public-opinion" polls, Hunt's nonprofit-and tax-free-foundation promoted a far-right, McCarthyist line that saw "dangerously radical tendencies" in the Republican Party (TIME, Jan. 11, 1954). As he folded all the projects, paid off employees and bought up outstanding contracts, publicity...
Last year's Charles Eliot Norton lecturer was Edwin Muir, the Scottish poet and critic. His general topic was "The Estate of Poetry." In the preceding years the lectureship was held by T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost and Igor Stravinsky...
...eight House debating teams will meet tonight in the first round of this year's Inter-House Debate Tournament. The topic is "Resolved: That President Eisenhower should be re-elected...
...group agreed to give up on such men of ill will as would not pay Council pledges and passed to another topic, that of a ride bureau. This bureau answers phone calls and helps people get rides and riders for trips. It sounded like a good thing. The problem was to get someone to answer the phone...
...these figures are realized, the obvious problem of overcrowding immediately arises. A national conference on the topic, "Approaching Equality or Opportunity in Higher Education," sponsored by the American Council on Education, has examined the situation in colleges. The conference came to three conclusions: 1) educational opportunity through the next two decades will extend in the abstract ideological sense; 2) the enormous increase of college enrollments in the 1960-75 period, however, will result in an overall reduction of educational opportunity (by 1975, 3,800,000 men and women will be reaching the age of 22 annually, compared...