Word: aspects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Copeland's latest inspiration becomes translated into reality, the American epicure trade will take on an entirely new and novel aspect. Senator Copeland, believing in the ultimate victory of restaurants over private kitchens, has suggested that a Chair of Cookery be installed in American Universities for the betterment of American restaurant food...
Yoshiwara Life. Seen from within, the life of the quarter does not present the roseate aspect visible to chance Occidental visitors. The geisha must undergo a lengthy educational process during which they are taught to dance, sing, and play the long necked unmelodious samisen. Further instruction renders them expert in all the formal minutiae of welcoming, supping with, attending, and bidding good-bye to their clients...
Boycott Fizzles. When the Roman Catholic boycott of Mexican commerce was instituted (TIME, Aug. 16 et seq.) Thomas W. Lamont, potent international banker, stern, suave partner of J. P. Morgan & Co., requested his agents in Mexico to survey the boycott situation from a purely financial aspect...
...whole aspect of our institutions is much more academic than is the aspect of American universities. We have strict rules which restrain the conduct of students, and so our students are rarely the subjects of the same sort of caricature that is found in humorous publications here...
...invite attention to another aspect of our political life and to some widespread misconceptions relating to it namely, the party system. Nowhere does the fundamentalist character of our political creed disclose itself more plainly than here. A political party is commonly defined as a large group of men and women who profess allegiance to common principles and who think alike on public questions. We are asked to believe, in fact, that voters choose a political party as the outcome of their own thought and reflection. In reality this is very seldom the case. Far more often the voter's allegiance...