Word: topically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before heading northward to Canada on his way home, Eden summed up: "We covered, I think, pretty well every imaginable topic while we went through these three days of discussion. We found a wider measure of agreement on them than I had expected when we arrived here ... I don't think we can have too much of this sort of mixing up, and I am sure it is an advantage . . ." He added a personal note: "These have been the most encouraging three days I have spent among you in Washington -and I have been on many journeys...
...American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, which started the last century's mass movement of U.S. Protestant missionaries to the world. Last week 17 Protestant ministers from the lands reached by American missionaries met at Williams College to mark the 150th anniversary of the haystack meeting. Their topic: "America's new role in the world church." That role has sharply changed from the condescension toward the "heathen" of the five Williams students. In a joint message, the bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church have put it thus: "Plainly, a deep-going reorientation in the method and spirit...
Although Sparkman has not announced his exact topic, it will probably deal with the issues for the 1956 campaign, Pagter said...
Oxford Historian A.J.P. Taylor, writing in the New Statesman and Nation, added his historian's pennyworth to a lively London topic: "Most Englishmen do not like women. They have normal sexual desires; they need women as housekeepers; but they do not enjoy feminine society except at bed and board. Hence all our characteristic institutions-clubs, public houses, boarding schools, colleges -though not homosexual, still encourage homosexuality...
...there were 2,500 working with the help of the commission. The number of statewide committees has jumped from nine to 34. The commission was one of the chief backers of the White House Conference on Education. But its most important accomplishment was to make education a national conversation topic. The number of articles on school affairs appearing in large-circulation magazines has gone up from 128 in 1949 to more than 400 last year. P.T.A. membership has doubled to almost 10 million...