Word: topically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Debate Council's anticipated string of victories was stopped cold Saturday evening as a visiting team from Yale talked its way to a unanimous decision over the Crimson debaters to avenge last month's loss to the Harvard team on the same topic...
Charles A. Lindbergh's shooting role in the war ceased to be a scuttlebutt topic. A press association reported: Civilian Lindbergh, in 1944, as a technical adviser in the South Pacific, went out in a formation with Major Richard ("Dick") Bong. A Zero jumped them. Civilian Lindbergh fired one burst from the guns...
Navy's yacht, that afternoon the Messrs. Truman, Attlee and King cruised up & down the Potomac and resumed their talks. The atomic bomb was the overriding topic, and word leaked out that Clement Attlee had a fresh proposal. It was a compromise between the "share" and the "don't share" proponents...
Last week the Navy's shark-scat was a red-hot topic in Gloucester. Other fishermen, following the Angle and Florence, tried it with success. But Skipper Philip Nicastro of the Serafina N. claimed that one impetuous shark ate a whole bag of the stuff without apparent damage. One possible explanation: shark-scat (like some strong cheeses) offends the nose and eyes, but not the stomach...
...Harvard University's Place in the Industrial Diversification of Cambridge" was President Conant's weighty after-dinner speech topic at the annual dinner of the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce, but for Boston newspapermen it was the President's kindness toward a certain press photographer that made the evening interesting...