Word: concern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Considerable concern is felt over the condition of Stafford, who played the best game he has shown this season on Saturday...
...when October sales amounted to $33,356,448, those of November to $31,351,707, and those of December to $31,127,276. Even more impressive were the sales for last October by Montgomery Ward & Co. of $21,964,882-the largest month in the history of the concern. Sales of both concerns for last month were larger than for any previous month, and it is freely predicted that both companies will establish new high records of monthly sales during the coming year...
...writer, a citizen of the South, dwells at length with the trials imposed upon the Freshmen by those gentlemen who express concern about the condition of the clothing worn...
BABER, OR THE LOST YEARS- Jacob Wassermann (Translated by Harry Hansen)-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). The author of Gold and The World's Illusion towers on the European scene as a very great novelist. His concern is with the spiritual crises of deep, positive natures under the stresses and distortions of post-War civilization in Germany. Here his framework is the Enoch Arden dilemma: a War prisoner home from Siberia after six years, finds his wife married to a charitable cause. She has been transformed from a warm, passive complement to his life into an active self-sufficient woman...
...students have, to all appearances, known little and cared less about the conduct of foreign affairs. War enthusiasm seemed to have exhausted all their interest in Europe as a political laboratory; only lately have they begun to realize again that the relation of the United States with foreign powers concern them vitally...