Word: aspect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyes of Members of Parliament last week the League of Nations was thus taking on the aspect of a device providing His Majesty's Government with unlimited excuse for armament and unlimited discretion in using their new weapons as they pleased. In one of the great demonstrations of this decade, the House of Commons rose and gave cheer on cheer for Mr. Winston Churchill, now slated to be the next First Lord of the British Admiralty, when he worked himself up last week to this climax...
...observe and follow for a sufficiently soul-filling time before he strikes the blow. Up to a certain point "King Coffin's" plans go well; he has lured his prey here and there; he has him at his absolute mercy. Then a swift change of events alters the whole aspect of the situation. Ammen begins to regain his sanity...
With Three Cities Sholem Asch displayed an ability to create a broad social panorama, drew a comprehensive picture of Jewish life in Warsaw and Moscow at the time of the Russian Revolution. Mottke the Thief, excellently translated by Willa and Edwin Muir, reveals a fresh aspect of Sholem Asch's talent, tells a lively, picturesque tale of a Jewish vagabond who bounded among the pillars and posts of pre-War Polish society. Before Mottke was born his jealous mother had thrown a bottle of vitriol on his father, burning the flesh off his face. In return, the father married...
...almost impossible to view the problem of American participation in the Olympic games at Berlin from a completely unbiased point of view. Social and Political questions have almost crowded the athletic aspect right off the stage, but one must not lose sight of the fact that participation in the Olympic games in 1936 is by no means an endorsement of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi principles of government...
...college disclaims him; the houses abhor him; his friends come to suspect him; and before long he has assumed somewhat the aspect of a hunted criminal. If he walks through the common room of a house he believes that all eyes are focused upon him in derision. He begins to lose his self-confidence, and he is ready to believe that for him college life can only be a myth...