Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life one of the most elaborate metallic scrap heaps that the history of civilization has recorded. A gaudy bauble it is. It shimmers with the simulation of bright reality, this modern civilization that we leave on your doorstep. It roars, it clatters, it shrieks and hums like a going concern. It will do almost anything but work. It is jammed - may I say in three classic haunts, jimmed, gypped and some of it is ready to be junked." In the Administration Building of Chicago's Century of Progress a telephone bell tinkled. A clerk picked up the receiver, heard...
...After asserting that Mr. Babbitt showed that there was something more to literature than an escape from reality and a vicarious romance, lie goes on to say that "Because this method of studying literature demanded a concentration on the ideas contained therein, he had little use for scholars who concern themselves primarily with sources and textual criticism." This may have caused him to miss the value of some literature, but this belief made him "restore to literary criticism some of the verve and vigor that it had long ceased to possess." His austerity came through his belief that his position...
...City Store, and the results of his experiment will be of very great value to the authorities broadening the diet which has been allowed to those on relief. I would not bother you with this detail except for the tragic urgency of the situation around here. . . . My only concern is to get it clearly before people that we lost on $12.80 a week instead of the $2.24 which was the figure quoted ... in your review. . . . (REV.) FLETCHER D. PARKER Immanuel Congregational Church Hartford, Conn. Sirs: WHAT? PRUNES BUT NO FRUIT? SEE DIET DERBY LAST PARAGRAPH PAGE 52 TIME...
...need for development. The German people at the moment are whole-heartedly in sympathy with his policies; it is not for any other nation to say what is right or what is wrong for another people. That they have turned a race out of their country is their own concern, and no one else...
...wrong premises as William Jennings Bryan once did. Like his silver conceptions, Germany's military views may wreak harm on others, but ahead of her lies the one purpose of regaining her pedestal in the world. As long as she keeps her experiments within her borders, it is no concern of this or any other country. But the moment her policies endanger the life and happiness of others, it becomes a matter of international concern. Germany does constitute such a threat to many people...