Word: topically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passionate partisans, the phonograph needle is as bellicausal a topic as that needle of the medieval theologians on which angels might or might not throng to dance. Every variety of phonograph needle -vegetable (fibre, thorn), metal (steel, brass, chromium, etc.), mineral (sapphire) -has had its champions. Meantime, most people keep on buying steel needles. Last year 750,384,450 needles were sold in the U. S. Last week Philco Radio & Television Corp. needled the phonograph industry with its first basic change since electrical reproduction (1925). Philco put on sale a machine ($129.95 to $395) with a built-in needle intended...
Brother Orchid (Warner). The making of movies is ringed about by taboos. But no commercial taboo is quite so terrifying as religious touchiness. Nevertheless, Hollywood has never been able to master an occasional whim to toy with the dangerous topic of religion. Brother Orchid is such a toying. It celebrates the spiritual regeneration of Edward G. Robinson (a gangster) by monastic life...
While Tom Dewey, with bravado, was fumbling with the topic of foreign affairs, while Taft appeared to be running toward the wrong goal posts, Willkie seized the ball, flatly declared: ". . . England and France constitute our first line of defense against Hitler. ... It must therefore be to our advantage to help them in every way we can, short of declaring war." It was what many a U. S. citizen believed...
Discussing the topic, "Is this America's War?" Nixon said "under the leadership of England and France this war does not promise to save democracy. The efforts of the laboring classes in European countries after the last war to hold off Fascism and preserve a democracy that came from the hearts of the people were frustrated by the selfish interests of the two great western democracies." Nixon citied Spain as a good example of this situation...
Shifting to the topic of the weather, Abbot voiced his "pet" theory that all changes in weather are caused by fluctuations in the intensity of the sun's rays...