Word: topically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reporter of the New York World, discovered the racketeering situation in New York by undertaking an investigation for the World. Racketeering, says he, is a good way to make easy money fast ; but racketeers are "unamusing and, like too many American business men, unable to talk interestingly of any topic outside their own field...
...States of America (northern, largest) in Cincinnati; Presbyterian Church in the United States (southern, next largest) at Charlottesville, Va.; United Presbyterian Church of North America (middle western) in Des Moines. The imminence of the 1900th Pentecost (June 8) made general church union a prayed-for but no more practical topic than usual at each one of these meetings. Although the Presbyterians have been an exceedingly divisive denomination, most of them have approved and adhere to the general council of the Presbyterian and Reformed Churches in America and to the alliance of Reformed Churches throughout the world holding the Presbyterian system...
...article in the June issue of the Good Housekeeping magazine entitled "Sheepskin Blues." Bruce Barton discusses that ever present question of what shall the college graduate do after graduation. For once it seems this topic is intelligently treated and the usual gloomy outlook that most of our pessimistic magazine writers inject in a discussion of this kind is lacking...
...there will be a lecture by Perey MacKaye '97, who will speak to members of the Cambridge School of the Drama on the subject "Steele MacKaye and His Contribution to the Theatre of his Time." On Tuesday at the same time and place he will speak on the general topic "Playwriting". These will be the last lectures in a series of talks to the School by members of the Board of Governers...
...with a facile calm surpassing the pure human. In returning the book to one's desk after the three hours it takes to read it from cover to cover, the first reaction should be a feeling of gratitude to Miss Hahn. She has removed the false whiskers from a topic of major interest, and revealed it glittering and elegant, a general mode, no less. We are not maintaining, however, that there won't be some who will feel ethically unbuttoned by this scientific document, some who will consider it too elementary, and a few who will be eighteen-ninety, relegating...