Word: topically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Debate Council has challenged Yale to debate the topic: "Resolved, That the inheritance of wealth is against the best interest of society." The subject gained prominence when the Yale News attacked inheritance as undemocratic. Yale has accepted...
...large class at the Law School some years ago, a student had brought up the topic of crooked politicians and to illustrate his argument, he named a few of the bosses of the day. At this point Warren A. Seavey, Bussey Professor of Law, interrupted. Quite off-handedly, he suggested that the student could use the current mayor of Boston, James Michael Curley, as an equally good example of a dishonest politician. Seavey did not know as he said this that Mayor Curley's son was sitting in the front row of the class...
...build big floats that are, in effect, moving stages for the outrageous and often obscene skits and tableaux they spend weeks devising. A week before Good Friday, while the capital watches goggle-eyed, the students belt down quantities of donated rum and parade the floats through the streets. Invariable topic of the rag: politics...
...topic, Speaker Rea chose to tell "a true story of a business problem faced by the chief executive of a medium-sized company." The executive, said Rea, was deeply worried about the state of his company's business, as well as the efficiency of his own office and the top men around him. On a friend's recommendation, he took his problem to a psychologist...
Harold Rea's surprise ending to his true story made it Topic A in Toronto business circles for days afterward: "The company I have been talking about is my own company. The chief executive I have been talking about was your speaker...