Word: aspect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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GEORGE ELIOT-Blanche Colton Williams-Macmillan ($4). The product of years of careful research, this biography treats every aspect of the great feminist's life and works. Author Williams devotes particular attention to George Eliot's life with Lewes, explaining much of her writing in terms of that relationship which so shocked the Victorian world. Although some of the detail is dull, the book as a whole is written with charm and perception, should be the last word on George Eliot for some time to come...
...greater or less degree that is what happened here yesterday. Campus opinion was unanimous in its approval of the program of "The Veterans of Future Wars," organized at Princeton to get a bonus for the youth of the country. The economic aspect of the plan came in for particular praise. No one could deny that the granting of the bonus would aid Mr. Hopkins to get rid of that embarrassing "wad" he is trying to dispose of, and as young 'uns are notoriously good spenders, the effect on the depression would be incalculable. As for the justice of the demands...
Meantime the steel industry was concerned with another and more fundamental aspect of steel prices - the basing point system of quotations. This system is a modification of the old "Pittsburgh Plus" plan. Carefully nurtured by U.S. Steel's late Elbert Gary, Pittsburgh Plus worked on the simple principle of charging every buyer the price of steel in Pittsburgh, plus freight to his door, regardless of where the steel was made. Thus in one classic example soon after the War, when the Pittsburgh price was $40 per ton, a Chicago concern was paying $47.60 for steel made by its next...
...Dirty Dog." Nineteen months old was the still unratified Franco-Soviet Pact last week, but its every aspect became freshly vivid in one of the Chamber of Deputies' stormiest fortnights of debate before the issue narrowed to a vote...
...eastward side of his countenance bears a less benevolent aspect, a grim eye watches Japan, and he asserts, "If Japan ventures to attack the Mongolian Republic . . . . we have to be able to help that republic." And so it goes. The Russians bluster and the Japanese cat fire, in a vein ridiculously similar to boastful statements from pugilistic training camps...