Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maintenance of Constitutional government in other nations is not a sacred obligation devolving upon the United States alone. The maintenance of law and the orderly processes of government in this hemisphere are the concern of each individual nation within its own borders first of all. It is only if and when the failure of orderly processes affects the other nations of the continent that it becomes their concern; and the point to stress is that in such event it becomes the joint concern of a whole continent in which we are all neighbors...
...This adjective is too extravagant, because the arrival of the flyers is several days off, and also because up to that date the event must be kept within reasonable bounds. ¶"An article study on the depression has appeared in the Regime. It is not timely. The papers should concern themselves rather with the signs of recovery. The depression will be examined and studied when it has disappeared. "You are reminded that all the news sent by the press office should be enlarged upon and used as a starting point for comments, italics, etc.; but seldom is to be reprinted...
LAST month Mr. Julian Green, in the midst of being astonished at the number of beggars in New York as compared with Paris, spoke to a Times reporter about his ambition as a writer. He is now far more concerned with style than he used to be, and his concern is to render it invisible. What he wants is "a style that is not only unseen but utterly unperceived. A complete negation of style...Give the reader a fact, not a phrase." This ideal, which implies a drastic cleavage between style and content, is shared by most of his contemporaries...
Since the discontinuance of the Fine Arts Theatre, the desire for a series of German films sponsored either through the University or other interested sources, has become at last realized, although no definite plans as concern organization or financial ends have yet been decided upon...
...Wrenner-Gren eventually got his asking price when he sold to Servel, Inc. the U. S., Canadian and Cuban rights. Through this deal he became Servel's largest stockholder and later a director. After a series of reorganizations Servel emerged in 1928 as a $14,000,000 concern backed by the Brady interests. It makes gasoline engines, truck bodies, mechanical refrigerators in addition to Mr. Wenner-Gren's automatic ice boxes. Its refrigerator business has grown enormously but in that cutthroat field swelling volume brought no swelling profits...