Word: topically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...probably not much different than one at Northampton or Ann Arbor, except that at Northampton the girls wear pants. The long linoleum floors in the Quadrangle Halls resound to the childish patter of barefoot beauties; along about 11 o'clock botany sinks into the background and Men become the topic. Meows fly fast but a lot of exertion goes to trying to smoke in rooms. It's forbidden, but they manage. But the most exciting event of all was the time last year that a Harvard student tried the fire escape method of entry into Briggs...
Roland A. Young, instructor in Government and tutor in Eliot House, will lead the second in a series of Eliot House lectures at 7:30 o'clock Sunday evening in the Junior Common Room, it was announced yesterday. Young's topic is "The Effectiveness of Congress in the Present...
...invented ersatz during World War I, staked her economic survival in World War II on a big program of synthetic substitutes for gasoline, rubber, leather, textiles and even foods. In spite of this advance preparation there is now a serious ersatz shortage in Germany. Substitutes for substitutes are the topic of most of the German scientific news reaching the American Chemical Society, mostly from refugees in England...
...subjects, and "The Sun Field" was a sparkling novel of the lives of the baseball players he knew so well. But Milton Lazarus' dramatization of the novel only serves to show how much of its original success was due to the salty vigor with which Broun plunged into a topic he knew and understood...
Citing Bridges' excellent work in the war effort and in bringing order to the West Coast unions, Coolidge said that "it was highly appropriate that he should speak on the topic of 'Labor and War' on Armistice Day" even though he was giving a regular speech for the occasion...