Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crumbling of the eternal Sphinx is a catastrophe of would-wide concern. Should the attempt of the Egyptian government to repair the monster prove unavailing, the superiority complex of man must suffer. He will be forced to adroit that an alliance of vagrant winds and inanimate sand has defeated...
With the mild immorality of these familiar practices,--as a matter affecting only individual ethics, there is perhaps no occasion for concern. They are part of a time-honored code in colleges; they even find their parallel in the world at large. But in the mass, they strike an unpleasant note; the well-known subterfuges by which they are effected lead to a distinctly distasteful state of affairs. The University has established a rule concerning attendance at the last class before and the first after a vacation; in its effectiveness can it find its only excuse for existence; with...
...question of denying admission to the country to aliens is by no means a minor matter concerning only the persons excluded. It is a subject of the gravest national concern. As Professor Chafee of the Law School has pointed out, the fundamental principle of free speech and the integrity of the First Amendment is affected by all laws and rulings concerning the rights of aliens; consequently when an Hungarian countess famous for her supposed revolutionary proclivities is denied her passports, the fact is not of importance only to her American friends and sympathizers; a principle of general social interest...
...Sheldon's concern with living speech manifested itself in the foundation of the American Dialect Society, of which he was the first Secretary, later the President. As President of the Modern Language Association of America, in 1901, he advocated a broadening of the concept of Philology. His love of letters appears in his long devotion to the great poet of Italy; he was from early times a member, and for a while the President, of the Dante Society of Cambridge. The articles which he published from time to time dealt for the most part with elusive problems of language...
...Syracuse (N. Y.) Post-Standard: "The great expense of athletics causes concern in many colleges. . . . The Harvard Crimson regrets the emphasis placed on football. Inasmuch as the curtailing of football is the curtailing of the chief producer of revenue in college athletics, the Crimson advocates the endowment of athletics, as well as instruction. . . . This plan would not be popular. . . . Where the public is eager to pay, the trustees would not have much enthusiasm in searching for an endowment...