Word: aspect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effort to ensure the publication of the Pictorial Pageant of America for persons of limited means, its publisher, the Yale University Press, is conducting a drive here to enlist private subscriptions. Each of the fifteen volumes of the work takes up a different aspect of American life...
...chapter on municipal government has been drawn from the great metropolis. At first the revelations were the usual stories of graft, bribery, and corruption, which were exceptional only for the scale upon which they were operated, but since Mayor LaGuardia's inauguration the investigations have assumed a more serious aspect. The first tales about Welfare Island Prison were not surprising and in part were almost amusing, but now that Paul Blanshard has focused his attention upon the City Home for the Aged, the daily investigation reports are weighted with testimony of criminal neglect, cruelty, robbery, and assault...
...coherent picture, a beautiful picture, is presented. A particularly good bit is a whale chase, in which a whalebone whale is successfully harpooned and killed; another perfect shot is the simple, graytoned, opening scene. But many more like these might be mentioned. Never is the hunting, wild-nature aspect so overemphasis as to emerge into the usual naturefaker travelogue; always it fits quietly and briefly, nicely timed. The picture as a whole accomplished two things which I never thought to see done: it makes the hackneyed and hitherto invariably repulsive love-among-the-savages theme ring true; and it wipes...
Strictly a field science is oceanography. For investigations of great ocean rivers like the Labrador & Humboldt Currents and the Gulf Stream, of wind-driven surface currents, of the habits and distribution of marine life and of many another aspect of the sea's vast and various lore, oceanographers must record temperatures not only at the surface but at considerable depths. Nearly a century ago a Frenchman named Aimé used a "reversing thermometer" for taking depth temperatures in the Mediterranean. This instrument had a constriction in the tube above the bulb. Having been lowered to a measured depth...
...Nest of Simple Folk" is as carefully studied as a novel could well be. Almost every relevant aspect of Irish life is built about the brief scaffolding of a plot outlined above. The book as a whole reminds one forcibly of the fortunate position which the Irish writer enjoys. Sean O'Faolain belongs to a culture which has felt intensely the impact or modern social unheavals, and simultaneously enjoyed the revival of rich and ancient national culture. As an artist he has profited by the great achievement of James Joyce in creating a mature racial conscience, while as an individual...