Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...incident. If he has thought of the effect on the great colonial powers were his tribesmen, savage, and untutored in modern military strategy, to defeat the well equipped, tactically superior legions of Rome. Does he not know that the white nations most powerful in Africa will look with deep concern on this native triumph? That prominent Britons will look askance at this hitherto unconsidered puissance which commands the Lake Tana and which may, by example, menace the British hegemony in Africa? Can he not realize that maintaining a strong and independent native African state and at the same time showing...
...University Professorships. It would be a great satisfaction if the Corporation were able to call to this chair a scholar pre-eminent in the field of political economy. This vital subject has to do, I take it, with the fundamental principles which govern human affairs, as they concern the State and as they concern individuals. Political economy concerns itself as much with the behavior of man as a social animal as it does with any known laws of industry and trade and agriculture and finance. And when I speak of fundamental principles I do not mean old principles...
...also common knowledge among professors and instructors in charge of the larger elementary courses that these abridgements are being used to an extent which has become of great concern to the college authorities...
Whatever the results as they now concern a curious and primarily entertainment-seeking audience, the Club deserves a word of commendation for its recapture of a tradition that seems, in spite of the obvious hazards, at once a duty and a privilege...
...mean, oblique phrases. Thus Franklin Roosevelt's head emerged as "a big trunk, battered by travel and covered with labels, mostly indecipherable." Cat-Calls is a collection of 36 poems in which the note of malice is a little muted, and in which an occasional tentative note of concern and passion is apparent between the lines. Most of Peggy Bacon's poems and pictures are impressions of city life, ranging from a glimpse of a laborer asleep in a subway to a literary party, from a professional invalid who needs "a wrap, a steak, a toddy...