Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With armor-piercing slugs in their cannon they aim to blow up boilers (repairing a boiler takes at least half as long as constructing a new locomotive, thus pays dividends in lost man-hours as well as destruction). The Allied bag now averages 20 successful destructions each week. German concern is shown by reports that armor-plated locomotives are planned; anti-aircraft guns are already being mounted on flatcars behind the tenders...
...money ($1,500,000), Rubberman O'Neil got a going concern which has made a respectable profit for the last 20 years. Founded in 1922 by sharp, balding John Shepard III, the network owns four stations outright (Boston's WNAC, Providence's WEAN, Worcester's WAAB, Bridgeport's WICC), has contracts with 17 others. It is, in turn, affiliated with the Mutual network...
...primary concern of American education today is not the development of the appreciation of the "good life" in young gentlemen born to the purple. It is the infusion of the liberal and humane tradition into our entire educational system. Our purpose is to cultivate in the largest possible number of our future citizens an appreciation of both the responsibilities and the benefits which come to them because they are Americans and are free...
...citizens and their press have freely criticized the British, their Government and their war effort. The British have seldom talked back. But last week, with U.S. foreign policy beginning to loom large in the politics of war and peace, Britons of all political complexions showed a growing concern with the meaning and direction of U.S. policies...
...make Hull House take a back seat in the affairs of the Halsted Street slums. "The very job of a settlement is to keep putting itself out of business," she announced, to the horror of Hull House traditionalists who not only wanted to keep the place as a going concern but fixed in the course Jane Addams had set. They were also shocked by Miss Carr's smoking and cocktailing, by her taking Jane Addams' bedroom as her office. Charlotte Carr often mourned that Hull House was in danger of becoming a shrine...