Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reading period the two most important questions concern the advisibility of omitting all reading period assignments from the examination and having this material reported upon in tutorial conferences at the beginning of the second half year. The other query is the extent to which students take advantage of the omission of classes to make up the work they failed to do earlier in the term...
...study of these questions, of which this book is the result, was started some years ago as a purely theoretical investigation, before the Treasury deficit became a matter of immediate and universal concern. This longer period of time has permitted the author to give due consideration to the entire field, without being overwhelmed by the urgency of any immediate problem; an unbiased treatment of the subject is accordingly assured...
...Chief concern among medical educators of late has been the rapid growth of specialization. As the result of statistics already on hand, the powers-that-be have decided, according to Columbia University's Medical Dean Willard Cole Rappleye, that "beginning in 1938 no physician will be listed as a specialist who does not possess a certificate from a board in his particular branch of practice." Consonant with that idea, the A. M. A. Journal last week published a list of reliable x-ray specialists. The list was surprising, for it contained only 1,274 names for the entire country...
Fels & Co. is a family-owned concern with a model 23-acre plant in Philadelphia. Like its soap formulas, its production, profits and other internal affairs are deep Fels secrets. Last week, therefore, U. S. financial editors rubbed their eyes when they received a brief news release announcing that Fels & Co. had just paid its 35th annual employe bonus. Lowest payment amounted to 22½% of a worker's yearly wages. Attributed to President Fels was this statement: "We are happy that through depressions as well as in periods of prosperity . . . we have been able to pay a bonus...
...successor, the Pony Express. But in 1869 it was caught napping while the first transcontinental railroad pushed through. When Wells Fargo put in a bid for the rail express contract, it found that an upstart named Pacific Union Express already had it. Simultaneously, it discovered the same concern had beaten down Wells Fargo stock from $100 to $13, then bought in, acquired control. In 1872, following a vast shuffle of officers, Lloyd Tevis of San Francisco became president of Wells Fargo...