Word: topically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Proponents of a nation-wide compulsory ceiling on laborer's wages as a means of holding down ballooning prices were essentially discredited last night by Hans Staehle, visting lecturer in Economics, and Overton H. Taylor, Lecturer in Economics, who spoke over the Crimson Network last night on the topic: "Should there be a ceiling on wages as well as on prices...
...years, ever since Hutchins began his campaign to put the study of philosophy ahead of the study of science, the university has been in a constant intellectual furor. Students staged a running debate in the Daily Maroon on the topic: Facts v. Ideas; professors posted arguments on bulletin boards. So preoccupied with intellectual matters is Chicago that when the university dropped out of intercollegiate football last year and abandoned big Stagg Field to schoolboys, students and alumni uttered scarcely a whimper...
...understanding or more helpful. His learning was immense, and his memory of facts seemed impeccable; both were always at the service of any graduate student who consulted him. When I first came to the graduate school in 1925, I asked Mr. Kittredge about some obscure point connected with a topic I was investigating. He referred me to an article in a highly specialized periodical, giving the date (it was, I believe 1894), the volume and the page. "These may not be right," he said, "for I have not read the article since it first appeared." I looked the article...
...opening issue of the Advocate is complete without a piece on high living in Boston, and this intriguing topic is quite adequately treated in the anonymous "A Word to the Wise." Illustrations by John Crockett, who inclines to the baroque, and Roland Thompson, whose virtue is simplicity, complete the usually attractive appearance and makeup of the magazine...
...Duke of Kent visited Hyde Park and Eleanor Roosevelt told reporters that food in general and fruit in particular was a topic of conversation. He had told, she said, that in Canada his eyes had beheld for the first time in many months an orange and a banana...