Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole, architects and aesthetes view with concern what is called " the haphazard manner in which rebuilding is taking place." Mr. Henry Aldridge, Secretary of the National Housing and Town Planning...
...another page are given some of the facts regarding election to Phi Beta Kappa. The honor society's method of selection is its own concern; yet it represents an interest in which all the students share, and undergraduates criticisms are perhaps worth considering. These criticisms are few: it is recognized that the only fair basis of choice for a scholarly society is scholarship, and that non-intellectual activities cannot be counted except when the scholastic records of two candidates are equal. But the complaint may reasonably be made that the society is too limited in its numbers...
...when the glass slipper is made to such definite specifications as Mr. Pulitzer's. Most patrons who give such prizes seem quite unable to do it without various qualifications. And, no adequate Bertillon system having yet been invented for literature or the drama, these qualifications ? except where they concern matters of ascertainable fact, such as the citizenship of the author, or the year of a play's nativity ? must, in general, be dodged when the time comes for the award of the laurel wreath. Very sensibly, too?but, why have the qualifications in the first place? Could there...
Charles E. Brickley (who in 1914 kicked five field goals for Harvard against Yale): " I was indicted in Springfield, Mass., for illegal stock negotiations and released on $10,000 bail. Since the dissolution of my stock brokerage concern in 1921, this is the second suit in which I have been involved...
...work out their lives in studied contemplation. Every act is done "off-stage" the poet chooses only moment of inner conflict to array upon his stage of words; and yet he offers clues to imagination for the rest that give if life. Prolixity at time intrudes; and his inordinate concern for their domestic trivialities is sometimes tedious and a bit absurd--bathos, perhaps. Consider Gabrielle's expostulating with the guest at breakfast for lax appreciation of the trout...