Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Helsingfors to Honolulu last week seismologists watched their instruments with sharp concern. Mother Earth seemed to be twitching all over like an old fly-pestered mare, sorely frightening millions of her inhabitants...
Rare among musicians is Pianist Artur Schnabel, the squareheaded little Austrian who refuses to publicize himself and chooses his programs to suit his own taste. To his manager's concern, Schnabel would play only Beethoven at his concerts last year. But when the box-office takings were reckoned he had proved to be an outstanding success of the season...
...half of which was in cash or liquid paper. During the past 30 years it has sold more than 22,000,000 automobiles, approximately the total number on the road today. Its principal stockholder once turned down an offer of a billion dollars for the company as a going concern. Since it was founded in 1903 with $28,000 of paid-in capital, it has grossed a few hundred millions in excess of $11,000,000,000, retained as net gain nearly $800,000,000. No man in all history has made so much money so quickly or so cleanly...
...school buildings, for example, without mention of the disproportion between these expenditures and the salaries of teachers. Similarly, political control of the public schools was ignored in praise of their "freedom," their "contact with the students' daily life," and their "democracy." Finally, in a discussion of educational problems his concern with the "present-day care-freeness" of students in their dress, with their "carelessness and unwashed-ness" must seem misplaced...
...Dawson finds the essence of Romanticism, without XIXth century secretions, in the Provencel literary tradition, when literature and religion co-operated and collaborated, and the present dualism was yet unknown; the third part is a paper on "Piers Plowman." There is a central unity, however, for Mr. Dawson's concern throughout is with the impact of religion on culture, insofar as it is ever possible wholly to dissociate the two. In the Middle Ages, especially in the XIIIth century, Christianity attained its cultural heights: "Europe has seen no greater Christian here than St. Francis, no greater Christian philosopher than...