Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Personal Concern for Students...
...Lastly, we shall concern ourselves with the needs of our own community, the student body of Harvard, and in every way strive to meet those needs, stimulate discussion and action on current issues of importance, and generally broaden the horizons of student thought...
Commerce's Civil Aeronautics Administration was mutilated almost beyond recognition. Despite congressional concern over air safety, the Taber committee recommended a $70.5 million slash in CAA funds, which would mean that after July 1 CAA could no longer maintain airport control towers (except in Washington). Its program for modernization of navigation aids would be cut in half. Observed the committee: "Air accidents will only be eliminated when people stop flying...
...Olympic Association. He had once dismissed Swimmer Eleanor Holm Jarrett (now Mrs. Billy Rose) from the U.S. Olympic team for late hours and champagne-drinking. But to Canada, this was different: why should he run to fellow members of the International Olympic Committee with grievances that did not concern his own team? (He also complained that Barbara Ann had accepted jewelry...
Carefully distinguishing between local control of public education and the proposed plan, the President pointed out that "the selection and education of our professional men is a matter of national concern," and backed the proposed National Science Foundation as a "promising beginning" along these lines...