Word: aspects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enormous quantity of heat required to change tungsten into helium--50,000 degrees Fahrenheit was the temperature at which the experiments in Chicago were conducted--while detracting nothing from the intense interest in the scientific aspect of the feat, would nevertheless render the experiment useless for all practical purposes and would leave intact the present theory of atoms as regards use under normal circumstances...
Even this doubtful compliment cannot be paid to Harvard Hall. The building which originally stood on the site was burned. The one of today assumed its present aspect in 1870. The architects in this case must have left stairways entirely out of their consideration but compromised with the authorities on a single flight just three and a half feet wide...
...Mendell and Tad Jones of Yale seem to be on the right track in proposing to limit the power of the most purely professional element, the coaches. Modern football tends to assume the aspect of a contest of skill between two experts who use college boys as their instruments of play instead of chessmen or cards. At Yale they are not talking of keeping the coaches away from the game and letting the players play it for themselves. This would, of course, give an advantage to the older and larger institutions with a longer and sounder athletic tradition...
...innocent bystander this controversy has its amusing aspect. And yet we cannot help feeling that misinterpretation is the possible fate of any information given to the press. President Hibben might have expected this as a result of the publication of the letter which was sent to all parents of Princeton men. Perhaps the fact that the papers got hold of it during his absence from Princeton indicates that its publication was the act of a minor official...
...apology offered for changing text books is that the course must be kept up to date, but it is doubtful if the excuse is entirely a legitimate one. Naturally, if the work in any department is to assume the most modern aspect, an occasional change in books must be made, but the practice of switching from one text to another can be overworked so easily that it hardly deserves encouragement...