Word: topicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rather surprised that the CRIMSON has not seen fit to comment on the proposed closing of Widener Library at six. Such a topic would seem to come under its sphere of action...
When Dr. Flexner sounded Dr. Einstein about a stipend for his part-year work, Dr. Einstein named a trifling sum. He will get, according to unofficial information on this delicate professorial topic, several thousand dollars for the five months. He will probably reside in quiet, academic Princeton...
...absorbing topic among the 147,000,000 people of the U. S. S. R. last wee was Harvest. From masses of figures appearing daily in the official Press, no or could be quite sure whether there woul be enough sour black bread when winter comes. The United Press reported the the Government had only 45% of il planned requirements for July. Other reports were less prophetic of starvation...
...Manhattan publishers have decided that Public Discontent is the topic of the day. Simultaneously this week appeared two magazines of the straight-from-the-shoulder, "let's-get-down-to-cold-facts" type. Each magazine is remotely related to the original Plain Talk* One, issued by H. K. Fly Co., publisher of old Plain Talk, is named Brass Tacks. The other is National Spotlight, published by George T. Delacorte Jr., edited by muckraking Walter W. Liggett, onetime editor of Plain Talk. Apparently on the theory that the reading public is like a sick man who enjoys talk about his ailments...
...United States has just rounded out a truly amazing decade. Most everyone is aware of a number of changes and remembers that much went on, but few have a complete mental picture such as this book gives. Racing madly from topic to topic through 350 highly compressed pages, Mr. Allen still can only touch on the high spots. But the quantity of the material is even more surprising than the content. An evening or so spent reading this book is far more entertaining and absorbing than a movie. It does, in fact, give the impression of a colossal comedy...