Word: pertaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...magazines published by McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.* Last week another change was announced. Starting with next September, The Magazine of Business will become a weekly called The Business Week. System will go on as before. But The Business Week, instead of having general discourses on business, industry, finance, will pertain most specifically to business news, with merely some of the features of the old magazine. Thus did full-page advertisements in metropolitan newspapers tell about The Business Week...
...very new thing they discovered: some normal "rapid" stomachs digest a meal in two and a half hours. Other normal "slow" stomachs require three and a half hours for the process. Those rates pertain only to the stomach. Digestion proceeds all the way down the ten yards of bowels...
TIME must decline hereafter to answer questions, such as this, which do not pertain to the news. When swans or cygnets become cygnificant (such as would be the death of the red-billed black swan in the garden of the Pena Palace at Cintra, Portugal) TIME will tell, will answer questions on the subject...
...fruit trees, six and seven story Buildings now stand. Hollywood is just one large institution. Boston is a city where there are many industries, many manufacturing plants and people engaged in many trades. Hollywood is different, It centers around the moving picture business entirely. Very little that doesn't pertain to pictures, happens out there...
There is considerable dispute as to the exact conditions which pertain on Mars' surface, so that there is ample room for difference of opinion as to the possibility of life. Conditions are certainly different from those on the Earth, but it is just as impossible to say that there is no life as to say that there is. The evidence is circumstantial to a refined degree. But if there is life on Mars, it is in different form from that existing on the Earth. Some scientists are inclined to grant the existence of vegetable life, such as fungi...