Word: topicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swank Guards' Club, along Pall Mall and at every officers' mess in the British Empire, there was but one consuming topic of conversation last week. The new young Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden might not be doing much at the moment (see col. 3), but the new young War Secretary Alfred Duff Cooper had just signed the most drastic reorganization order the British Army has ever received. In effect this Mayfair scion, whose famed wife Lady Diana Manners played The Virgin in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle, ordered: "No more cavalry...
...this time a paper was due in Phil B on a general topic in the subject matter of the course. When the papers were turned in about 40 were found to be practically alike...
...education which is important and effective is self-education, and a student acquires knowledge and learns only by working things out for himself. The only way he can quicken his own mental processes, follow an author's line of thought and understand a topic is by reading and analysing the author's original work as a whole and as distinguished from a digest thereof...
...general topic of discussion at the meetings this year will be the problem of Social Security. This subject will be divided into three main divisions, Unemployment, Old-age Pensions, and the Cost of Medical Care...
...Marine Insurance Certificates" is an article by Philip W. Thayer, research assistant, Institute of Criminal Law. In this discussion there is a straightforward account of the topic bringing up several new sides of the question...