Word: topically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nation's Talk. In underground shops and shelters, in shattered homes and streets, the Germans' first topic of talk was the bombings. A trailing second place went to what everyone called "the imminent Anglo-Saxon invasion." A lagging third was the once all-absorbing Russian front...
Somewhat to his surprise the Archbishop of York at his first U.S. news conference had found newsmen less interested in religion in Britain than religion in Russia, which Dr. Garbett visited for ten days last year. Twice last week he spoke his mind on this controversial topic...
Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock Henry H. Nattens '47 and Carl O. Tolf of the Nayal ROTC will debate against Boston University in the second half of a home-and-home debate. The topic will be: "Resolved, That President Roosevelt's foreign policies led us into this war," and the Crimson debaters will again take the negative position. The judges will include Gordon W. Allport, professor of Psychology, Merle Fainsod, associate professor of Government, and Raphael Demos, associate professor of Philosophy...
...year and more the polls had shown MacArthur to be a likely contender. There could be no doubt that hundreds of thousands of plain people (without much ideology) thought highly of him. But still the figurative chairman of the ail-American town meeting never let him become the topic of free and frank discussion. There was, of course, good reason: most of all, the fact that the General himself was working away at his fighting...
...quotation rivaling General William Tecumseh Sherman's famous "I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected." The New York Herald Tribune's Bert Andrews reported that "friends" of General Marshall say that if he were "in a position to talk about the topic" he would declare: "I'll be in my grave before I'll be in politics...