Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cheerful one. Samuel Butler's "Book of the Machines", which argues the menace of matter over mind, is the most engrossing chapter in "Erewhon" And a writer of even more recent date, a scientist of repute, has lately filled columns of the public press with his concern over man's future amidst the complicated machinery, his own creations, to which he has gradually become a slave...
...facts, but the visit of Louisiana's governor to the Federal authorities at Washington shows at least that officialdom is taking a serious attitude toward the activities of the Ku Klux Klan. The government of Louisiana is probably not in immediate danger; but the future holds cause for concern...
...history is not an exact science, as anyone with the slightest acquaintance with the study of history is well aware, and some of the worst offenders in this respect have been in the past the historians of the school that Professor Hart's assailants seem to prefer. Their passionate concern for the greatness and character of Samuel Adams is gratifying proof that they love that America which undoubtedly he very much helped to create. But Messrs. O'Connor, McSweeny, Prout, Walsh and Watson as students of history should bear in mind that Samuel Adams was very English indeed, as were...
...that could have been amended at our slightest word. The silliness and smallness of this misrepresentation of the American people is abysmal, when one sees the League in operation, functioning smoothly and amicably, and already developing a splendid spirit of universal cooperation in the solving of problems of universal concern. The agreement to refloat Austria has been a tremendous step ahead, for instance, engineered mainly by the patience and skill and altruism of that great Leaguer, Balfour...
...which has demonstrated its capacity to add nearly three and a half billion dollars to the volume of credit, which supplies half of the currency in circulation, and engages in investments and open market operations, exercises a sufficient influence to make its operations a matter of public interest and concern. For these reasons, he said, it is important that the administrators of the System should have a clear conception of the goal at which they are aiming, and that the public should know what that goal is. He said that repeated discussions of the subject had crystallized in the opinion...