Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yale's treatment of the baseball squad will be the most pressing concern for the crowds on Wednesday afternoon following a morning of open houses throughout the University and round table discussions after lunch...
...evidences of continued decline exist and are of great concern to those who feel the absence of the traditional Harvard leadership. Perhaps the faculty has been enervated by the war. Whatever the reason, Harvard has lost pre-eminence in many of the departments of the Humanities. The very base of the individuality of the University, the tutorial system, is threatened; new concepts of the old truism, intellectual balance within the student body, spread doubt that a worthy theory will be applied. The faculty may already be committed to the General Education Plan, but the undergraduate body stands at the shore...
President Truman had presented catalogues of wanted legislation, but he had failed to sell the issues; he had failed to arouse or hold the people's concern. In Washington an astute observer summed it up: "Congress still gets orders from the President, but now it doesn't feel required to pay attention. It's the power that Roosevelt put into the Presidency that is gone, under Truman...
...reason for the young monarch's concern was evident. While he sat solemnly listening to a lecture in the palace, somebody had pinched his favorite green 1942 Nash, parked out front...
More than 60% of U.S. production comes from small business (annual gross sales under $5 million). Nearly 80% of industrial labor is employed in small plants (with less than 1,000 on their payrolls). Last week an executive of one such concern went into print with the charge that this vital segment of the U.S. industrial economy was being squeezed to death. In an article in The Atlantic Monthly, building-insulation maker Robert E. Outman said...