Word: topically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council is planning a joint debate tournament with Wellesley in early March on the national topic, "Resolved: That the United States should extend diplomatic recognition to the Communist government of China...
Although O'Brian has not definitely decided on his topic, it will probably deal with, the field of civil liberties. He gave a similar set of lectures two team ago at Washington and Lee University on the subject of "Changing Attitudes Toward Freedom...
...years le probléme de I'appartement has been a chief topic of French conversation. In the swank Neuilly and Passy districts of Paris there are many big new apartment buildings where an apartment can be bought for from 2,000,000 to 10,000,000 francs ($28,500), but cannot be rented: the contractors, short of liquid capital, demand a lump sum. In the suburbs, numbers of municipally owned apartment houses have gone up, but they are for functionaries and privileged workers, and the priority list is long. The great mass of French people looking...
Novelist Taylor (This Side of Innocence) Caldwell, who with her husband had to kick in $47,696 in income-tax arrears last year, popped up in the revenuer's office in Buffalo. Unhappy topic of discussion: $40,987 which the Government claims she still owes on her past income from royalties and a partnership. Taylor collapsed on the revenuer's floor. Whisked off to a local hospital, she was pronounced in "good" shape at week...
...Parent . . ." Had it not been for Mount Dora's courageous weekly newspaper Topic, the case might have ended right there. But the Topic's editor Mabel Norris Reese had long been in battle with the bullying sheriff, and in spite of all reprisals-a flaming cross on her lawn, the poisoning of her dog and the smearing of "K.K.K." across her office windows-she was ready to wage war again. The Platts, she told her readers, were of Irish-Indian stock, probably descendants of Sir Walter Raleigh's "lost colony" of Roanoke. "If you are a parent...