Word: concerning
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Indicative of the increasing concern of Americans over the plight of the homeless Jewish people of Europe is the growth of the Harvard Zionist Group within six months from a handful of students to a well-knit organization of over...
...without ill effects, the undergraduate in Math or science must elimb, rung by rung, a ladder of prerequisites, which lead to graduate courses where the brilliance of the Department's permanent staff can eventually be appreciated. Since most undergraduates never intend to carry their Math studies that far, their concern is not stimulation by genius or authority but understanding and interest created by a good teacher...
...Falling Concern. Western Europe's economy (and possibly her hopes for political democracy) hinged on making the Ruhr a going concern. In a peak pre-Hitler year (1929), Germany sent half her exports to western Europe, including Britain and Scandinavia, and most of these came from the great Ruhr basin. The western European steel industry depended on Ruhr coke; Dutch and Belgian ports depended on Ruhr traffic. In a single year the Ruhr produced 128,000,000 tons of coal, 16,000,000 tons of steel, 13,000,000 tons of pig iron. War-ravaged Britain Had neither...
...Going Concern. The agreement signed by Secretary of State James Byrnes and British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin formalizes a setup devised by the U.S. Army's Lieut. General Lucius D. Clay and his British opposite number, Lieut. General Sir Brian Robertson. The Clay-Robertson plan established five bipartite, interzonal policy committees to supervise finance, economics, transport, communications, food and agriculture. Actual administration is left to six-man German joint committees in each of these fields. Clay and Robertson guessed that the program would cost the U.S. and Britain $1,000,000,000 over the next three years...
Most of Janet Fairbank's recitals lose money, a fact which doesn't concern her greatly. ("I figure I like to sing and it's worth it to me.") Grandfather N. K. Fairbank made his fortune in Gold Dust washing powder, among other things, and helped found the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Janet's mother is Novelist Janet Ayer (The Bright Land) Fairbank; her aunt is Pulitzer Prize Novelist Margaret Ayer (Years of Grace) Barnes. In a stone mansion on Chicago's State Street and on a gingerbready Victorian estate at Wisconsin's Lake Geneva...