Word: aspects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, three months after it met, the 70th Congress had the aspect of a thoroughly political Congress, which is what any truly professional Congress is expected to be in a presidential year. Its routine work was pretty well out of the way, but matters of intimate consequence to citizens, and therefore of private anxiety to Congressmen, were in a state of turmoil which portended a legislative jam when it comes time for the Congress to adjourn in June...
...other hand, if one is sufficiently sensitive in vision and feeling, it seems as if there would always be all sorts of things in the aspect of objects about us worth recording--color, form, pattern, and that these can be treated in such a way as to give us pretty paint surfaces, harmonious and sparkling color and agreeable design, things which, hung on the walls of our houses or apartments, may add much to the pleasure of our life. The painter therefor treats his subjects as so much material or motive to be made into a pleasant arrangement, a pretty...
...hours of physical education is a sensible requirement; but athletes will certainly give as much time as this to exercise; and as for other students, the word "must" reverberates unpleasantly, and required physical drill shortly assumed a most repellent aspect...
...revolutionary aspect of the Reading Period has, it seems to me, been overestimated. As the plan worked out in many cases, students were merely given unusually heavy assignments which did not essentially differ from ordinary course requirements. In such instances, the changes involved in the Reading Period were as follows: students were not lectured to, nor were they quizzed on the subjects covered by the assignments. But when one considers that the lectures in some courses do not cover the same ground as the contemporaneous reading, and that few courses hold quizzes directly prior to the examination period, the novelty...
After the show was over, there was an unpleasant aftermath of surreptitious doings which further emphasized the mercenary aspect of dog shows. Someone administered a dose of arsenic to Hi-Point Monoplane, prize collie puppy, owned by one William J. Burgess. So potent was the dose, that Hi-Point Monoplane died a day or so later, to the rage, sorrow, and financial loss of his owner. Someone else fixed a beady and covetous eye on Warily Gang Leader, champion wire-haired fox terrier, kennel mate and spouse to parexcellent Talavera Margaret. While the dog was being shown by her owner...