Word: aspects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordinarily brightly lighted Freshman dining hall in the Harvard Union took on a mediaeval aspect last night at dinner time, when the main fuse blew out, and the five or six hundred men who were eating there at the time were left in total darkness...
...much faster than they now are. There must be many cameras focused on the same scene, and many projecting machines throwing the images on the screen. Screens must contain minute ridged reflecting and refracting elements of "extreme optical perfection," so that every person in the audience may see every aspect of the picture. Projection lenses must be of "extraordinary defining power." The films must run through the projectors with microscopic precision. Finally, if all the mechanical requirements are accomplished, there remains one more obstacle. No photographic chemicals are yet known which will register pictures as swiftly as Dr. Ives...
During the War many an able soldier suffered from "shell shock." After hours of bombardment men would become madly hysterical. Exploding shells would throw men through the air or bury them under debris. Afterwards, many with no outward sign of injury would be paralyzed or gibbering. The mystifying aspect of "shell shock" was that the functional disturbance was often in a part of the body far from the obvious injury. Pathologists eventually found that the nerves governing the disturbed part usually were subtly distorted. Recovery from shell shock was slow. Many a case still persists, 13 years after...
...past Manhattan season. In Torch Song Author Nicholson played about with a case of mistaken identity between sex and religion. He showed his heroine joining the Salvation Army when deserted by a traveling salesman, later having a reunion with her lover when she tried to convert him. This aspect of the story has been overlooked in the cinema, which tells a plain and not particularly stirring case-history of a girl who misbehaves, reforms, reverts to misbehavior, then to reformation. Much of the action takes place in a small-town hotel where traveling salesmen are shown engaged in chores...
...where Dictator Augusto B. Leguia was last year deposed (TIME. Sept. 8) a leading Lima paper La Prensa commented last week: "General Gomez makes 'Presidents' and maintains them in office until he is bored by the joke. . . . Joking aside, the tyranny in Venezuela has such a grotesque aspect that we must congratulate ourselves that even in the worst of the Leguia regime we did not have anything like...