Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York, practically bankrupt when he took office, was a sound and stable concern when he left. During his twelve years, New York built a new city prison, 67 schools, 262 playgrounds, 14 vast housing projects, two hospitals, great stretches of parkway, the Triborough and Bronx-Whitestone Bridges, the Queens-Midtown Tunnel. It bought and consolidated its subway and surface transportation systems, built miles of new underground rail lines. But he had given the city more than material benefits; he had stamped on the serpent of municipal corruption until it moved only faintly; he had proved that "reform mayors" need...
With their lawyers by their sides, the men at the head of Manhattan's three biggest art museums last week sat down to decide matters of mutual concern. They bound themselves to a three-way split of art, and agreed to keep out of one another's way from...
...massive Metropolitan, they decided, should concern itself with "classic" art (denned as art which "has become part of the cultural history of mankind"). The glassy, faddish Museum of Modern Art took for its bailiwick everything "still significant in the contemporary movement." And Greenwich Village's Whitney Museum-the youngest of the three, and something of a poor relation at the conference table-agreed to stick...
...Crimson's headtrainer Jimmy Cox today in the Stadium when the whistle blows for the season's opening kickoff. Like the thousands of other first-gamers, Cox will probably be anxious to see how the much-balleyhooed Harvard backfield performs in its 1947 debut. But his primary concern will center around those men who don't score the touchdowns, the ones who may be lying on the ground upfield in the wake of the play. And any time a red-shirted player hits the turf and stays there, the Varsity trainer will really start sweating...
...Concern over the fate of Varsity morals at the hands of traditional Ivy League nonchalance has driven Gerald Spear '48, chief cheerleader, to the brink of hysteria and into the public prints in an appeal for rah-rah organizers...