Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Olympic Association met to consider sending a team to Berlin. One faction strongly opposed U. S. participation on the theory that Jews were being unfairly barred from German teams, while another faction argued no less earnestly that how the Nazis made up their teams was no rightful concern of the U. S. This semipolitical issue smoldered along for two years, while the American Olympic Committee was appointed, extracted a pledge that Jews would be allowed to compete for places on the German team and the Committee's chairman, Avery Brundage, went to Germany to investigate. It sputtered into...
...half courses covering the history of science require considerable technical knowledge to be enjoyed; and cannot attract the student whose primary concern is to gain an insight into the scientific method. Such a course necessitates a lecturer whose approach would be virtually that of the layman, and who would realize that his sole purpose would be to stimulate interest in a field that has unfortunately come to be associated too much with pure technique...
Article 42 & Article 43. Adolf Hitler, with his intuitive flair for what is and is not vital, anticipated last week's outbreak of war when he said at the recent Nazi Party Congress, "We will remain neutral with respect to developments which do not concern Germany directly, and our wish is not to become involved in such developments." (TIME, Sept...
Most curious thing about the Gannett papers is that they follow no set mold, have no common editorial or typographical formula. Each was a growing concern when Publisher Gannett bought it (average age: 75 years). Each is permitted to continue virtually without interference as an individual newspaper reflecting local conditions and sentiment. Only common denominator of the Gannett papers is that each aims to be as clean, honest and wholesome as its Unitarian publisher...
After Domesday Book (1920) Edgar Lee Masters temporarily abandoned verse, wrote a series of thesis novels intended to demonstrate the spiritual superiority of the pre-indusrial Midwest over that of the present. His hostile biography of Lincoln gave evidence of his increasing concern with nationalism, since it presented Lincoln as the wrecker rather than the savior of the Union...