Word: topic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles Augustus Lindbergh have. In those circumstances, socialite Britons assumed and freely said last week in Mayfair that, as in the case of Ethiopia, British public opinion is now in course of a great change, and soon the comings and goings of Mrs. Simpson will be a popular topic in the popular press...
...because its prevailing west winds are deflected upwards in successive strata by the huge petrified surf of the Chemung Hills, soarers last week camped in tents below the knolls from which their ships were launched, helped each other tinker their craft, chattered over picnic fires. Major topic of three-dimensional sailing enthusiasts, like that of yachtsmen, is the weather. Because the weather at Elmira for the last three years has been disappointing, pilots discussed moving their annual meet to Ellenville, N. Y., in the Catskills. After one painfully calm day, when the meet started last fortnight, a warm summer wind...
...divinity students--may count for a great deal more, but however much a man may be compounded of ideals, the practical aspects have some appeal, particularly when account is taken of the sacrifices often involved. It is knowledge, or rather a larger, even if not conclusive, consideration of this topic that most embryo graduate students are especially anxious to discover...
Cahners has been a leading hammer thrower on the track team for the past three years, and will speak on athletics at Harvard, while Miller won the Lee Wade Speaking prize. He is to speak on the general topic of "Harvard Indifference...
Despite Dr. Sondern's attempted interruptions, Lord Horder talked about practically every topic which came to his mind or the minds of the ship reporters. Someone asked him about lengthening human life. Lord Horder: "Don't people live long enough? How to live more happily would be rather more to the point. People are living longer. Every year their expectation of life at any given age is increasing. But what is the use of living longer if we are not happy with economic conditions what they are and the infernal noise of cities, and with machinery we have...