Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...battle, focused upon the issue of whether any executive is worth a million a year. Said Mr. Brisbane, uncompromisingly: "A civilization that can afford to pay $250,000 a year salary for a few minutes talk on the radio can afford $1,000,000 for running a big steel concern." But Writer Sinclair quoted the late, great Nicholas F. Brady: "No employe of a well-run corporation can possibly be worth in salary over $100,000 a year...
...Hungary is considerably more than a remote possibility raises issues of paramount interest to students of international politics everywhere. The union of two states, one with a population of two states, one with a population of about sixteen million and the other nine million, cannot but be regarded with concern by all those nations who regard the balance of power in Europe as assured by the present arrangement. The proposed "anschluss" between Germany and Austria, which has been talked of at irregular intervals since the war, and which reached its highest point in 1928 at the famous Schubert Sanger Fest...
...secondary course. The term "exploratory" is not to connote superficiality; the secondary school should be as interested as the college in thoroughness and quality. During the last three years there is especial need for mutual understanding between secondary school and college. In my opinion this is a concern of departmental faculties as much as of headmasters, deans, and chairmen of committees on admission. These closing years of the secondary period should afford opportunity for concentration of the individual's courses about a core-curriculum reflecting his particular needs and aspiration. This does not mean free election nor radical restriction...
Simon & Schuster, spectacular young concern (Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster) who gave to the U. S. crossword puzzles, Trader Horn, Story of Philosophy, Joan Lowell. This firm is unique for its high average sale of its comparatively few books...
Greatest triumph of Mark Twain's Jim Smiley was the training of a broad jumping frog on which he won many a bet. Chief concern of the story is about a bet Smiley made with a stranger that his frog, "Dan'l Webster," could jump farther than any frog in the country. The frogs were lined up. The stranger's animal gave an ineffectual leap, went a few feet. Came Dan'l's turn to jump. He would not budge. Said Mark Twain...