Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prescription turnover, always the first concern of the store, has shown a fourfold increase in the last six years, seriously overtaxing the present facilities...
...bills being sent up Pennsylvania Avenue for the President's signature. Only two are of even passing importance--one an exemption from taxation of Mr. Rockefeller's gift to the United Nations, the other an extension of the war-time rate of certain excise taxes. The rest concern such vital issues as annual rates of pay for Senate clerical staffs, the Philadelphia National Shrines Park Commission, installation of a storm drain under certain lands in Los Angeles, and payments to Switzerland for the sinking of the Awa Maru...
...duty were placed at strategic spots along the line of march, while plainclothesmen infiltrated throughout the Yard. Police strength was increased two-thirds during the last Yale game, but here attention was directed more to stray pocketbooks than missing goalposts. The Force considers gridiron shenanigans with little concern but any attempt at dynamiting Soldiers Field is regarded as carrying seasonal jocularity...
...College sufficiently long to discover what is expected of them on examinations. With the initial need for hour exams removed, they are now discovered to be the source of a good deal of confusion and frustration for both student and Faculty. Mention of Mr. Bender's report recalls his concern with the inordinate emphasis many undergraduates have been placing on exams and on paper grades. Certainly such a concern may be deemed paradoxical when viewed in the light of the College's continued insistence on hour examinations for all undergraduates. The deteriorative influence of such exams on the undergraduate psychology...
...England's biggest concern would be the new Ambassador's attitude toward her dollar difficulties. If the British remembered F.D.R.'s remark that Douglas seemed more concerned with dollars than humanity, if they were concerned over his dislike for a controlled economy, they could stop worrying. Lew Douglas was an internationalist first, a "hardmoney" man second. Said he: "England is a good risk. But it will be a sorry, sorry day ultimately for this nation when we condition our loans solely on whether they are good risks...