Excellent topical bibliographies are to be found in each of the volumes in Hart, American Nation Series.
But this applies only to general work, such as records of ordinary scenes, topical events and stage plays, where the action of the moving objects is comparatively slow.
In one instance an independent topical worker who had a first-class negative of a popular subject drove round from theatre to theatre with his negative and secured an order for about half-a-dozen copies.
In many instances, especially in non-topical work, the operator need not necessarily incur the expense and trouble of printing a positive film.
There could be no method of printing more suitable for those who are travelling, or engaged on topical work, often under trying conditions, for the conversion from photographing to printing, and vice versa, may be accomplished in an instant.
The spool boxes carry 100 feet of film of standard gauge in each instance, and for general all-round work, such as the recording of topical events, either model will be found perfectly efficient.
The only exception that may be made to this drastic policy is the topical film, which may have been taken under adverse conditions, during a fog, or in heavy rain, or on a dull day, or at a late hour when the light was bad.
A firm engaged in supplying topical films cannot hope to succeed without amateur assistance.
This happens not only in trick work where such odd and startling effects are introduced purposely, but in straightforward every-day topical subjects.
For the filming of topical incidents it is invaluable.
In all quarters there is an increasing demand for films of prominent topical interest, either of general or local significance.
In the topical film it is more the interest of the event than the quality of the film that is important.
It is eminently suited for all round duties, from the rush and tumble of topical work to the uneventful, quiet but exacting requirements of the laboratory.
That of the annual laws may either be topicalor chronological, but the statutes, in whatever order they are printed, should be numbered and cited by number.
Both Matthew and Luke follow Mark's order except in the first part of Matthew where he is topical in the main.
Great fulness of detail in Mark for this period and condensed report in Luke while Matthew is chiefly topical in this portion.
In any case the surgeon cannot dispense with a knowledge of suitable topical applications and the principles on which they are founded.
In the afternoon he read or picked the banjo or, sitting down to the little piano he had rented, played over his three pieces, the two polkas and the air of the topical song.
He strummed his banjo a little and played over upon the piano the three pieces he had picked up: two were polkas, and the third, the air of a topical song; he always played the three together and in the same sequence.
Almost every number was a waltz or a two-step, the music being the topical songs and popular airs of the day set to dance music.
He should writetopical verse; if there is a political campaign on, he should write verse bearing upon that; if a great catastrophe occurs, he should write about that, but he must not write on these subjects in a commonplace manner.
He should send his verses to the daily papers, for they are the publications most interested in topical verse.
From time to time there would arise the occasion for the topical article on trams--Trams as Army Transports and How our Trams fared during the Recent Snow, to give two obvious examples.
This early success showed Annesley the possibilities of the topical article; it led him also to construct a revised calendar for his own use.
I didn't laugh myself, because I never go out anywhere, and so I don't understand topical remarks, but I do think it is nice to live in such an amusing house.
Stopping the evils by suspending the habeas corpus, is applying topical remedies when the disease is in the system; topical remedies will only remove topical eruption; the complaint extends over the whole body.
This is carried through the town, the bearers meanwhile chanting a song which, in spite of an old tune and refrain, is full of topical allusions.
He whistled a short snatch of a topical song as he undressed.
In a cheerful "undertone she sang topical songs the morning long.
Having premised the composition of the topical black dye, we are now prepared to apply it in the lazulite style.
Mordants or topical dyes, to be applied in this way, should not be much thickened.
The duration of the steaming depends upon the quantity of acid in the mordant, and of saline solution in the topical colour; the more of which are present, the shorter should be the steaming period.
The decolouring or enlevage style; by the topical application of chlorine or chromic acid to dyed goods.
Prussian blue is prepared for topical printing by grinding it in a handmill, like that for grinding pepper or coffee, and triturating the powder with solution of muriate of tin.
The lustrage, which the cleansed skins next undergo, is merely a species of dyeing, either topical to modify certain disagreeable shades, or general to impart a more beautiful colour to the fur.
Among the topical colours for this style are the following:-- 1.
This topical colour is made by digesting acetate of alumina upon ground logwood with heat; straining, thickening with gum senegal, and applying the paste by the cylinder machine.
This topical black forms a fast colour, and resists the fine blue vat, weak potash lye, bichromate of potash, boiling milk of lime, dunging and maddering.
It ought also to be observ'd, that Camphire must always be mingled in the topical Medicines for the Cure of the Gangrene.
The Pain and Inflammation of the Part may be asswag'd by letting Blood, topical Anodyns, cooling Clysters and Purgations; but in case much Blood hath been already lost, Phlebotomy must be omitted.
Their presence was the inspiration of certain “topical songs,” as we would name them—sometimes saucy, oftener flattering.
In this way pure liquid paraffin is valuable, precisely because it is inert; moreover, it might some day, perhaps, be made the vehicle for effective topical remedies.
To make this wealth of ideas easily and quickly available as an aid to those of all ages who aspire to achieve something beyond the ordinary in life, we have prepared this Topical Index.
Trace the development of the theme by means of a full topical outline.
Make a topical outline of several papers, for example, XIX, XXI, XXVI, to show whether or not they have unity.
Gradation and the Topical Method of Historical Study; Historical Literature and Authorities; Books for Collateral Reading.
With an Introduction upon theTopical Method of Instruction in History.
What had prevented him from completing a topicalsong (music by R.
The curtain rose upon the usual group of historical and topical characters, seated round the stage in a semicircle, most of them twitching with incipient hysteria, and all resolutely avoiding the eye of the audience.
Where can I find the subject of "topical memory" treated of?
It is not surprizing that the Licenser objected to such passages as the description of Miss Giggle's "nudities," but his frequent objections to topical and personal references took all the bite out of Macklin's satire.
Since plot is absent too, all that remains is the wealth of topical and personal satire which in itself is interesting to the historian of the mid-eighteenth-century theatre.
Finally, Macklin's best work as a playwright was satiric enough and topical enough to be short-lived in popularity even in his own day.
