Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like women to meddle in the diplomatic affairs of the Holy See. Such matters are not their concern. The action of one woman, the widow of a man who had important documents, has done much harm already...
...studio high in the Adirondacks announced that he had instructed his New York lawyers formally to demand of the Harvard School of Business Administration the entire sum of the prize rather than allow Marcus and Co. to forward it to him. His contract, he further stated, with this concern for the designing of advertisements expired recently...
...Greeley Abbott, zealous for his scientists' labors and his Institution's reputation, made a loud and lusty complaint. Those book agents, he declared, were misrepresenting. They let buyers believe that the Smithsonian Institution was publishing the books and making large profits. Really the Smithsonian Scientific Series, Inc., new Manhattan concern, was publisher. The Institution received only 10% royalties, a ridiculously small percentage, which he had vainly sought to get increased, whereas the book agents were getting 25% to 35% commissions. The Institution was tied up by contract for 30 years...
...David Buick (then 46) was a partner in the Detroit plumbing concern of Buick & Sherwood. At that time, Henry Ford was a machinist. R. E. Olds was making his first experiments with the Oldsmobile. Novel was the theory that a gasoline motor could furnish better transportation power than the horse. But Mr. Buick saw the future of the motor car. He sold his Buick & Sherwood interest...
...vogue of saying sensational things about colleges and college men has spread so widely of late that pungent opinions on the subject have ceased to be a cause of any deep concern. But though extreme remarks usually carry with them the warrant of their own weakness, some of them strike near enough the truth to be suggestive as caricatures. Into this class falls a remark recently published in a New York paper to the effect that colleges are not attended for the purpose of obtaining an education, but because it is the thing...