Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most business concerns a decrease in sales points to poor business. And poor business means hard times. Elementary Watson! But there is one concern which should pride itself on being unique, and that is the Harvard Business School. A decrease in sales here may just as well prove that business is better...
...life aboard the lightship is not Author Binns's chief concern. The more poignant portions of his book record the stormy lives of the nine men prior to their seeking sanctuary on No. 167. Samples...
Most of Author Myers' prayers concern social matters. "For Slum Clearance" is definitely informative: Do Thou make us ashamed of our toleration of the slums, which in disproportionate measure continue to make criminals and prostitutes of many boys and girls who never had a chance. Reflecting the New Dealish attitude of the Federal Council of Churches, the prayer "For Labor" comes closest to striking a political note...
...domain. The Rev. Charles ("Wearie Willie") Murray, devout, pious, gentle, with definite leanings toward Rome, is constantly baffled by the problems confronting a pedagog in the English public school. While masters worry over problems of faith and dogma, of pedagogy and discipline, of finances and families, the boys concern themselves with cricket, standing, good form, smut and tormenting "Wearie Willie." Young Middleton falls in love with "Tired Tim's" blithe young daughter and after certain vicissitudes marches bravely off to war. Bill Sikes is expelled for torturing young Carmichael who achieves top place in the form. Bill Sikes...
...aware that the resemblance is meagre ("I am not like Dickens at all"), his latest book may well give the myth a wider circulation. Dickens' sideline was social sympathy; Author Priestley's English Journey, a lengthy digression into the economic back streets of his country, shows the same individualist concern over poverty and ugliness, the same little-English confidence that character will muddle through the worst economic mess...