Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fiat,* largest automobile company in Europe and largest Italian industrial concern, has long poured over the Continent its gleaming metal spawn, big Fiats and little Fiats, trim town cars with square lights and snub noses, Baby Fiats that are playthings for South American debutantes, and cars like the huge grey road lizards in which Il Duce speeds from camp to campagna. The Fiat company's ten factories make also tractors, forgings, castings, Diesel engines, electricity; employ 32,000 men; sold 40,000 cars last year; reached gross sales of $50,000,000 and net profits of almost...
Bertrand Russell (1872-) is a courageous English mathematician who, though disillusioned about communism after visiting Russia, retains a tender mysticism even in his most tough-minded logic. His faith in mankind extends to all races. His concern lately has been with elementary pedagogy* but he may be watched for something serene in the next decade. Four U. S. philosophers remain...
...presidents (he is almost the chum of President Coolidge, was his classmate at Amherst; also President Wilson trusted him). Mr. Miller, the onetime Governor of New York, might also slip into the Judge's place, indeed more conveniently than Mr. Morrow. He, since last October, has been the concern's general counsel, a director, and a member of the finance committee...
...months ago Dillon's agents had integrated the units of the German combination to make them function as a single concern. The refinancing-$60,000,000-he would supply as soon as the reorganization documents were perfected. Two weeks ago these were so near ready that he loaned the Thyssen people $5,000,000 for working capital...
Inclined to the belief that schools which concern themselves solely with the development of military or naval officers are becoming more and more impotent in matters of culture and intellect, that they are too often sending forth men Ill equipped in anything without the precise and narrow bournes of their particular trade, one considers any movement toward incorporating the study of military or naval science within the category of liberal education is a step forward in humanizing the military profession and giving to the nation an opportunity to reduce the military to its proper place in the college community without...