Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conveniently placed substitutes for the old wobble-stick, some use the vacuum energy generated by the engine's air-intake systems to operate automatic clutching and transmission changing. A few 1939 models (with optional equipment) approach this trend's ultimate aim: to relieve the driver of all concern with transmission control, enabling him to give fuller attention to modern, high-speed traffic problems. Other changes: Running boards are abandoned completely in some models, optional in others. The rumble has given way to the 4-to-6 seat coupé. General savings in gas consumption and in wear & tear...
Onetime ad writer for a mustard concern and sober-living father of three, Author Hutchinson* wrote The Answering Glory, an intense story of a woman missionary in Africa, from the snug purview of his London suburb. Although he was only eleven when the Armistice was signed, The Unforgotten Prisoner was an apparently first-hand account of English and German War victims. And he wrote Shining Scabbard, a grim novel of French family life, with no closer acquaintance with France than French literature...
...first time in several years members of the University will have a chance to see football movies. The flicka will be held in the Indoor Athletic Building at 7:30 o'clock tonight and will concern the Harvard-Princeton gird fray...
...story and production had grip. But the only explanation for the badly panicked thousands-who evidently had neither given themselves the pleasure of familiarizing themselves with Wells's famous book nor had the wit to confirm or deny the catastrophe by dialing another station-is that recent concern over a possible European Armageddon has badly spooked the U. S. public...
...problem, but last week the 585 merry conferees produced no new explanations for it, no new remedies. In his opening address Banker Frothingham gave measured expression to I. B. A.'s usual explanation-that the New Deal is to blame. Said he: "Business still feels the gravest concern and hesitancy to venture, in the atmosphere of restrictions and penalties that confront it." Nonetheless, Banker Frothingham gave the New Deal praise for right motives...