Word: aspect
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Business is sometimes spoken of as an especially lucrative calling, but its money-making aspect is usually over-emphasized. While business, especially during the past generation of rapid exploitation of the country's resources, has offered some enormous money prizes, the average business man's income is moderate. And though good fortune plays its part and seems occasionally to pour wealth into the lap of its favorites, the average business man gains his modest "competence" by a combination of knowledge, persistence, good judgment in estimating values, and courage in making or seizing opportunity. Everyday business is not an adventurous speculation...
...increase of even a few dollars through compulsory membership means practically an increase of that much in the tuition fee: the news to be spread throughout the country will be that it costs more than $200 as a minimum fixed charge, to go to Harvard College. This is an aspect of the case to be borne in mind...
...methods and especially the large scale application of rotation of crops in regions such as the South where this has been little tried may do much to restore temporarily a stage of increasing returns; and thus cheaper food may be provided for the population. This is a larger aspect of modern agriculture which contains promise, and is another argument for the expert in agriculture...
...Fuller points out a new, or at least generally little thought of, aspect of military discipline in his article in another column, in that it teaches us that it is not only our duty but our privilege to show loyalty to our nation. His statement concerning President Lowell's position in the matter, however, merits some explanation...
...injured list does not present as serious an aspect as was first thought. Wallace has practically recovered from the blow received on the head, and King should soon recover from his strained leg muscle. An X-ray examination has shown that the injury to Gilman's ankle is not a fracture, but a sprain, and it is expected that he will be available for the last three games...