Word: topically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, Herman Finer, visiting lecturer in Government, and Eugene Blum, will speak at a forum in Emerson D tonight at 8 o'clock. The topic is "Russian International Aims and the Democracies" and the forum is sponsored by the Harvard Forum, the Radcliffe League for Democracy, and the International Club...
...atomic bomb [TIME, Aug. 13] remains the principal topic of conversation. It is of course too soon to try to evaluate its infinite possibilities for good and evil. . . . My initial reaction is a feeling of deep regret that science has apparently learned how to utilize atomic energy. I hold with Churchill that the secret of atomic power has been "long mercifully withheld from...
...overwhelming topic, touching and yet overriding all others, would be the relation between the Big Three themselves-the countries as well as the men. Franklin Roosevelt had gained some fame at previous Big Three meetings as the mediator between the other two; at Yalta he had been made chairman of the conference in recognition of this talent. Harry Truman, in no position to fill such a role, seemed determined that all three of the Big Three should talk and bargain on an equal footing. He specifically avoided a preliminary Big Two meeting with Churchill; he did not want...
Tired of having their students delve exclusively in the musty attics of the past, Western Reserve's graduate faculty began thinking of a program in contemporary U.S. culture several years ago, finally got it going last spring. Students may suggest any topic they like, do their own investigating. Leslie Collins spent two weeks each (mostly on the road) with Dancer Dunham, Paul Robeson and Marian Anderson...
Home's Heritage. Young George went to country school, took part in spelling bees and won arithmetic contests, joined a debating society. Debate revolved around topics such as: "Resolved, That man is a free moral agent." One day, in jest, he proposed the topic: "Resolved. There is more pleasure in living with a neat, cross woman than with a good-natured, slouchy woman." In the rugged frontier, George Norris found there was no one who would defend the slouchy woman...