Word: topically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Agnosticism, Atheism, and Belief" was the topic of an informal talk by Homer W. Smith, professor of Physiology at the New York University Medical School, in the Winthrop House Common Room last night...
About 200 debaters from 68 colleges will compete Thursday through Saturday in the Sixth Annual Harvard Invitational Tournament on the Topic, "Resolved: That further development of nuclear weapons should be prohibited by international agreement." Teams include Northwestern, national champion, and Pennsylvania, tournament champion...
Kennan will deliver a total of six public lectures--two per week--on a topic not yet decided but expected to be some aspect of foreign affairs. The series will be sponsored by the History Department...
...weary task of studying the archaic imperial wedding lore under Palace Ritualist Osanaga Kanroji. His bride in hand, the prince was free to join his parents. Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagoko, at a heady gala: the annual poetry-reading contest. Fired by this year's contemporary topic (windows), an astounding 22,427 waka fanciers had submitted the stirrings of their muses. Eleven of the 15 winners were able to join the imperial family in the palace's drafty West Room to hear professional chanters drone the formal. 31-syllable verselets. The Emperor, who is above the burly...
...time when "presidential leadership" or lack of it is a heated topic, Schlesinger's assessment of Roosevelt as an executive is intriguing. On the book's evidence. Roosevelt dodged decisions as long as he could, operated in a wild confusion of often contradictory ends, preferred to create ten new jobs rather than abolish an existing one. All this Schlesinger defends as a manifestation of genius, the triumph of flair over disorder; and in a sense perhaps...