Word: topicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard will get a ringside view of a real, live Communist tomorrow at 2 o'clock, when Earl Browder, 1936 candidate for President, will speak in the New Lecture Hall. His topic will be "The Real Ismen in Spain...
Council members must be careful to watch the College very closely and pounce on any question which seems to be brewing in the public mind; timely comment and clarification of any currently discussed college topic commands respect. During the past year one student appealed to the Council on a ruling of the Dean's Office on the matter of language pre; this was used more or less as a test case, and several suggestions were made on language pro in general. It is to be hoped that students will get in the habit of following this procedure
...Baldwin committed his Government to no scheme for dissipating the labor clouds, talked discursively about "miners being human beings," about "practicing the arts of peace in a world of strife," about "democracy and its relation to our industrial conditions." Only once did he make any reference to the one topic uppermost in everyone's mind-the bus strike. He declared, "The whole world has its eyes today on London. ... I appeal to the handful of men with whom rests peace or war to give the best present to this country that could be given at this moment...
...fleet of fishing vessels and westbound steamship lines. Irrepressibly ambitious about bridges, Denmark plans to open this summer the Storstrom bridge, even longer than that across the Little Belt, which will link Zealand to the east coast of Fünen. Two other projected bridges are a consuming dinnertime topic for all Danes: one to join Copenhagen with Sweden; another to join Zealand with the Island of Falster on the direct route to Berlin...
...action revolves about a lionized cat, and the efforts to kill it, save it, substitute for it, and impersonate its one-logged doctor, occupy the full two and a half hours. Starting with so limited a topic as a cat and restricted in locale to the sun-deck of a yacht, the play nevertheless spreads out over a wide range of situations. One indication of this is the names of the songs. They're all rather good, but slightly outstanding is "Totched in the Haid and Smitten in the Heart", and really superior is "Ten O'Clock Town", for which...