Word: aspect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yard did not take on its present aspect really until University Hall was built in 1815. Before that time the Yard must have presented a shabby appearance, with an untidy wood-pile of mammoth dimensions where University Hall now stands. The impressive simplicity of University Hall's granite front is an innovation of the last 90 years, for previous to that it was hidden by a massive iron portico of indescribable ugliness. The rabbit warrens in the cellars of this building which minor University officials call their offices owe all their sunlight and air to the removal of this porch...
...astonishing aspect of the giant Thompson clover is that it should have been discovered so tardily in the U. S., a thoroughly botanized nation. It may be, opined Smithsonian Botanist Conrad Vernon Morton, "one of the last conspicuous new plants to be discovered...
...similar meeting three or four years ago, the young ladies of the Junior League last week held their annual national conference in Philadelphia. There were luncheons and a visit to socialite Mrs. Richard Haughton's rock gardens, but for the most part the session had the aspect of a four-day retreat for political education...
...world will agree that for only a brief period can a great nation be robbed by material means of the vital rights which under the divine law of things belong to it. ... From Pacifism has sprung a nonfighting aspect on life. Pacifists wrote of one who died on the field of honor as if he died an unnatural death. The battlefield is for a man what motherhood is for a woman!" Seriously worried, Adolf Hitler summoned his puppet Reichstag to hear a great speech on Germany's foreign situation. Should he back down on rearmament he would lose face...
...Depression. Last week passers-by on Broadway might have thought that the season was opening at the dingy, yellow brick opera house. Cordons of police held back curious spectators. Shiny limousines rolled up, discharging richly dressed socialites. Flash-lamps flared continuously. Inside, the old theatre had changed its aspect completely. A floor had been built over the worn, red plush orchestra chairs. An improvised circle of boxes had been built under the Dia- mond Horseshoe. The scenery for La Rondine had been set up on the stage but the smart New Yorkers who crowded the opera house had no intention...