Word: aspects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Allan Craig of Chicago, addressing the American College of Surgeons last week at Montreal: "It is the spirit within him that makes the man supreme in the world and allows him to control materialistic things. . . . Consider the average 150-pound body of a man from its chemical aspect. It contains lime enough to whitewash a fair-sized [sic] chicken-coop, sugar enough to fill a small shaker, iron to make a tenpenny nail, plus water. The total value of these ingredients is 98 cents...
...Every meal should have its social aspect," he continued. "There is no better place for men to talk matters over then at a dinner-table. With the present fashion of taking a hurried meal at a cafeteria, such intercourse and discussion is entirely eliminated from the menu, and young men in college are the losers thereby. Remembrances of table conversations should be among the pleasantest of college memories, and every college man should have an eating place where he will have the opportunity of leisurely luncheon talk with his friends...
...Mary Bethune, negress, founder of the Bethune Cookman College, which has four hundred colored students, ands conditions of so sanguine an aspect that she predicts, "Christian education will wipe out practically all race difficulties in the South." Although a Meneken might object to the qualification of the education, all will agree that such a forecast is most encouraging. The continued payment of the running expenses of this unendowed college, which amount to about $80,000 annually also shows that there is more than thought in the new attitude...
...most interesting fields of study in English literature is that of the beginnings of the novel, that form which now, in varying degrees of excellence floats our book-stores and libraries to overflowing. Not the least intriguing aspect of this study is the personal character of the early novel writers...
Gambling was an aspect of Frick's adventuresomeness. He speculated in stocks and boldly used his inside, forehanded knowledge culled from directors' meetings in which he sat. At early meetings of U. S. Steel Corp. directors, Judge Gary, Methodist, often caught Frick matching $20 gold pieces with fellow directors-Henry H. Rogers, N. B. Ream, P. A. B. Widener. The Judge made them stop their games...