Word: aspects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...community once more see things in the same light as themselves. How they will attain, this enlightenment remains to be discovered. ... A man who is convicted by the dean's office of cheating and leaves college under the stigma of that hideous word takes on an aspect of moral guilt which his companions ... do not of their own accord inflict. . . . Certainly a man's honor in the world is bitterly lost...
Commenting on this aspect of the situation, Dean Hanford wrote the following: "Although the process of transition has been made somewhat more gradual and effective by the developments just described, it would be folly to assume that all of the difficulties have been solved or that readjustments of machinery and methods are alone sufficient. It is necessary that the schools and colleges give further thought to the subject. On' the point of the college it is necessary that the quality of instruction of beginning classes be still further improved by the use of a large number of experienced teachers...
When the last land dissolves upon the horizon, the sea assumes its elemental, immutable aspect. Ships seen upon it then most truly represent man's control over inanimate nature" if not over himself. President Hoover, 36 miles at sea off the Virginia Capes last week, had a chance to ponder such verities. Over the horizon from the north, looming bullet-grey in the brightening morning, moved four-fifths of the nation's fighting seapower. As an engineer Mr. Hoover had to admire. As a President with instincts toward creative civilization, who had just engaged to limit such power...
Although there is an undoubted value in sugaring the diet, it has been observed, and rightly observed, that the main purpose of lollypops is to give the child a substitute for his thumb. The vari-coloured aspect of the product has also been stressed by some authorities as an important factor in attracting and focusing the child's attention. No person or organization, however, with the exception of the Boston Traveler, has ever promoted the American lollypop as the eternal panacea for all infant ills...
...Europe-South America commerce when the Graf Zeppelin poked its nose through murky skies over Friedrichshafen last week and started its 18,000-mile flight to Seville, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro; thence to Havana, Lakehurst, N. J., and home. Every attempt was made to emphasize the casual business-like aspect of the flight. Little excitement attended the takeoff, save that created by the passengers. Elaborate fare schedules were issued covering each leg of the journey (round trip $6,500).* Passengers and mail were to be transferred at each port of call. No exclusive news privileges, such as the Hearst agencies...