Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basis on which the scholarships will be awarded, however, gives rise to some concern. While the regulations adopted by the Council are framed with masterful ambiguity, it is apparently planned to give primary consideration to participation in extra-curricular activities. Such a plan cannot e deemed to be in the best interests of the students. The extra-curricular activities deserve the encouragement of the College, but they should never be recognized as a primary aim for any student. The award of scholarships in the manner intimated by the Council would have the same effect as athletic scholarships in diverting attention...
...College--which should not be distinguished from the University, inasmuch as it should be the preparatory and proving grounds for the Graduate Schools--he will concern himself only with the encouragement of creative thought, and it is perhaps almost too obvious to call attention to the change that this will bring about in the face of the University as a whole. There will no longer be those who enjoy a scholarship at Harvard on the strength of ability to get A's: the upper seventh of the student-body will consist--as will the faculty to an even larger degree...
...Dallas, Tex. He had no money but he did have a well-connected uncle. The uncle ran the M. T. Jones Lumber Co., gave Jesse a job in one of its yards. In a year Jesse was yard manager. In three years he was general manager of the whole concern, planning to extend the company further through Texas and Okla homa. It was then that he moved the scene of his operations south to Houston, a growing railway and shipping town connected with the Gulf by shallow Buffalo Bayou...
...Unnecessary Congressional spending was also President Roosevelt's concern. So he called in members of the House Appropriations Committee and subcommittees, who promised they would get right to work passing the necessary bills to provide the required budget billions. Still a little shocked at the budget's size, they heartily agreed that further expenditure would be undesirable...
...later in Rensselaer, N. Y., the man who introduced aspirin to the U. S. on a commercial scale retired from the active management of Bayer Co. Dr. Emmanuel von Sails, a Swiss from Basle, came to the U. S. during the Spanish War, went to work for a chemical concern in Rensselaer. In 1904 he persuaded the company to start making and marketing acetyl salicylic acid tablets, which were well known in Europe. In 1913 the plant was purchased by Friedrich Bayer, manufacturing chemist from Germany. During the War Bayer Aspirin Co. was seized by the Government as alien property...