Word: topically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...electrons, which generate x-rays, and then to count them one by one, was the chief speaker at the 37th annual meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society in Cleveland last week. Dr. Millikan, who has a strong urge for evangelism acquired from his preacher father, stretched his advertised topic "High Energy Radiations and Their Uses" to declaim that "a democracy like ours cannot survive and war can never be eliminated unless we can learn to solve our social problems by the rational method." Less original but also instructive were the addresses which disclosed the following recent developments in medical...
...pages of text, constitute the so-called Robinson-Patman Anti-Price Discrimination Act, most discussed, least understood piece of business legislation passed during the last session of Congress. In the months since the Robinson-Patman Act became the law of the land, it has grown into a top-flight topic for lay and legal speakers, the subject of countless tracts, booklets, pamphlets, articles, opinions, analyses, and a prime source of worry to most of the country's businessmen. On the law's philosophy, constitutionality, interpretation there is nothing except confusion and disagreement. Vastly interested were business observers, vastly...
With the development of the United States constitution down to the latest Supreme Court decisions on taxation, regulation of commerce, and police power as the topic an evening adult study group opens tonight at 7.15 o'clock in Emerson Hall...
...relation of Harvard to the other American Colleges and Universities was the topic discussed by Mr. Potter, who stressed the fact that it was the part of the graduate students which made Harvard into a national university...
...conference, Senator Vandenberg remarked: "It's been dry in Michigan, but we only knew casually it was a Drought until this trip." Emerging, he reported on results: "We accomplished a mutual exchange of congenialities." Heading for Nebraska, the Michigan Senator was primed to speak on the following topic: "If the Drought is a calamity, what is Secretary Wallace...