Word: topically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...done much better on the few occasions when he treats his subjects at length. His favorite sort of topic is covered by two major articles in the first volume, one on Einstein and the other (by far the longest piece in the set) on the nineteenth-century mathematician William Kingdon Clifford. Scientific American readers will recognize neither of these: the Clifford piece was the introduction to a 1946 edition of Clifford's The Common Sense of The Exact Sciences, and the excellent survey of Einstein's more important work came out as a separate article three years...
...senior honors thesis on the electoral college. At the same time he was writing it, his father, Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. '24, was conducting hearings on a plan to amend the Constitution to divide each state's electoral votes proportionally according to the popular vote. George's thesis topic was probably suggested by the Senator. "It wasn't the sort of thing I was really interested in at the time," George recalls, "but I hoped it would be useful to my father...
...monster of iniquity; his wife, on the other hand, is a certifiable bitch, and her bitchery has very little to do with her husband's occupation. Without much question, Moore has got hold of the wrong villain, something an artist of his skill would not do if his topic had not blurred his vision...
...candidates then settled down to the topic of the debate, "Automation and Defense Contracts--Boom or Bust for Massachusetts...
...encouraged its contributors to approach their topic from any point they desire. They have not been urged to defend or criticize any particular sort of examination question. According to Bramson, "The people have been invited to speak both as representatives of a particular field, and as individuals. We are hoping for contributions covering a very wide range: some persons are going to want to write about exams they have actually given; some may want to talk about the broader questions involved in what you might call the 'philosophy' of examinations...