Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question of prices furrowed Secretary Wallace's brow as deeply as his concern over the half-a-hog vote among farmers. "There cannot be further increases in the percentage of the consumer's dollar that goes to the farmer as a result of reduction in supply," he significantly admitted. What he did not reveal was the fact that farm prices, as a result of drought and reduction, had risen to such a point that the whole Federal adjustment plan was being jeopardized...
...shaggy mustache, high wing collars. She had stepped out of her class and married him, given him money to form an orchestra, tour the provinces and down the Volga. Exiled from Russia she helped finance him in Western Europe, became his shrewd self-effacing partner in a music-publishing concern which has sponsored the works of Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff. Natalya Koussevitzky is rightfully proud of her husband's U. S. achievements. He has polished Boston's orchestra so that it again rivals New York's and Philadelphia's. He has given peerless performances of Ravel...
...turgid, myopic, verbose, sorely needing the astringent blue pencil of a copy desk. He seemed to be arguing that had the boy had more money, he would not have got himself or his girl into trouble. Clearest point: "I am inclined to agree with the French that crimes which concern love and passion and the ambition of youth are nothing which the law, in its cold, calculating and in the main commercial mood, should have anything to do with...
...received the news of his father's death, or how the Queen wept over her husband's corpse. It is strange also that, in a country so democratically minded, interest should be concentrated on glorifying the career of a somewhat doubtful Balkan Monarch to the exclusion of any concern at the calamity which has befallen Europe in the death of one of France's greatest foreign ministers. Even your own excellent paper seems hardly to have noticed that a great democratic leader has also died. Surely this must mean more to the immediate future of Europe than the almost unavoidable...
Medical students will no longer know whether they are doing honor work, it was learned this weekend. The rating "excellent," has been discontinued, so that men may concern themselves directly with their work rather than place emphasis on grades...