Word: concerning
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...British Mothers Union, of which Queen Mary is a patroness, was reported by the New York Times to have adopted last week in its 13,000 branches (membership: 577,000) an attitude of "anxious concern." The Pauline Revere who is at tempting to spread news of the King & Mrs. Simpson among organized British Mothers was identified as Mrs. Frank Theodore Woods, widow of the Bishop of Winchester, who resides at Hampton Court in an apartment at the disposal of King Edward. In the circumstances His Majesty is unlikely to turn Mrs. Woods out of Hampton Court, and she was reported...
Children were also the concern of the Soviet Ambassador, Comrade Marcel Rosenberg, who appeared last week to be the most authoritative pro-Madrid figure next to its military defender, General Jose Miaja, a strict professional in horn-rimmed spectacles. The so-called Madrid Government had dispersed (TIME, Oct. 26, Nov. 16). Its president, Don Manuel Azana, a Republican, was in Barcelona last week and its Premier, Francisco Largo Caballero, a Marxian, was in Valencia with the rest of the Cabinet. In a manifesto they claimed to be supported by the Soviet Union and by the Mexican Republic...
...diligent reader, Chinese "news" is completely unsatisfactory. Always censored, always violently propagandistic, it reenforces a feeling of helplessness and drives him, unwillingly, into a kind of despairing fatalism. The United States has, however, as much concern for the facts, needs to be forwarned just as much in the East as in the West...
...more serious mood which drew men to the Teacher's Oath hearing only show that Harvard's own toes must be trod on before screams will issue forth from the student body. In many respects it is in the tendency to mind their own business and not concern themselves with the affairs of others that Harvard men differ from the average run of college students in America, but it is a tendency more of inertia than of the interest in life that college should engender. But just as long as the spirit of academic freedom pervades the Yard, the traditional...
...Wilsonian illusion". The new effort is directed, indeed, towards a limited measure of international security, but nobody expects it to provide a patent remedy for world differences. Rather it is an opportunity for horse-trading, for the exchange of one practical concession for another. And if the seeds planted concern a multi-lateral agreement and trade pacts, Buenos Aires will not be found a Sahara...