Word: topicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biggest thing that ever happened in Chevy Chase was also easily the biggest thing that happened in the U. S. last week. For an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court to broadcast on any controversial subject was unprecedented. For an Associate Justice to deal with the topic that awaited Hugo Black was wildly sensational. When he arrived in Norfolk, Va. last week after a tour of Europe and told newspaper reporters that he would not speak for fear of being misquoted (see p. 50), his prospective broadcast instantly became radio's biggest attraction since Edward VIII's abdication...
Professor Berry is an outstanding authority on power engineering and he will discuss the contribution which the various Natural Sciences make to the practical production of low cost power. He will also take up the currently important topic of government and municipal power plants and "yardsticks" of power costs. This should make the meeting an interesting one for scientists and non-scientists alike...
This recommendation regarding picture-taking provided the one discordant note in the committee's report. After the report was printed, says a stapled addendum, "a divergence of recollection" arose on this topic. No surprise to newspapermen was this divergence when Managing Editor Harvey Deuell of the New York News was revealed as an active participant in the discussions. The News alternately practices and impugns every bravura trick of modern tabloid journalism and would suffer greatly unless the picture strictures were eased. Other members of the newspaper committees also thought the original recommendation an "excessively drastic restriction." Accordingly the amended...
First, the topics of the essays are unrelated. For this reason, the articles offer a diverse diet, but one which cannot suit the needs of every reader. Why should not the Guardian attempt to devote a major part of each issue to one important topic taken in different aspects and from different, even opposite, viewpoints. A number of years ago, a group of distinguished scholars in Russia undertook three series of publications under the titles: "New Ideas in Philosophy," "New Ideas in Sociology," and "New Ideas in Law" (Jurisprudence); with each issue in each series devoted to one topic alone...
...sense too academic. A little more fighting spirit, a little more pointedness in the aspirations appears to me more in the style of youth than a too correct imitation of the best manners of the academic "mama and papa." Should an issue be devoted to one important topic with conflicting viewpoints, this fighting spirit would come automatically...