Word: topicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether the Holy Cross game would be the holocaust game of the season was the topic for discussion among all the second guessers down at the field. In their three games the Crusaders have allowed their combined opponents to roll up an aggregate gain of some 23 yards, according to the latest unofilcial figures, which means about nine yards a game, and a little less than a yard every six minutes...
...Muse was flashing her most winsome smile, and the boys were doing beautifully. They hadn't gotten very far; they were still dallying in the olive groves with Socrates and Plato. And the topic under discussion was the Platonic super being, or the Natural Man. Apparently the latter gentleman had not been very closely defined...
Perhaps the Harvard yearlings are a precocious group of nibs and know that it takes more than a stork to produce the numerous progeny which clutter up the landscape. Or perhaps they are just not interested in the juicy topic of typhoid carriers, vitamins, and microbes...
...best dissertation on a subject connected with the topic of Universal Peace and the methods by which war may be superseded. This prize is open to any student of the University in any of its departments. But students cannot hope to be successful who have not some knowledge of international...
...Regretted that the first woman M. P. remains so incurably trivial a headline-snatcher when Lady Astor, showing the neat ankle of a Langhorne of Virginia, introduced the topic of her openwork silk stockings. After publicly regretting that she has to import them from the U. S. and pay a stiff British duty, the Noble Lady was informed by Dr. Edward L. Burgin, Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Trade, that she can "Buy British" openwork silk stockings...