Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ranks are filled by Harvard's diverse post-war recruits, the alumni will expand into even greater areas geographically and socially. The activities will mirror the serious devotion of men who have embodied about their own alms mater respect and concern for high standards in education. The depth and scope of this interest, which goes beyond nostalgia and memories, is, perhaps, the true sign of the Harvard...
There was some concern in government circles that Russia might give indirect aid to the Azerbaijans. For some time government sources have been reporting privately that military technicians, arms and other forms of aid were filtering across the Soviet border into Azerbaijan...
...writer is ... honestly concerned with the complex influences of sex and of class consciousness on a man's search for happiness. That problem is also of deep concern to the public. That public is entitled to the benefit of the writer's insight. ... To suppress what may appear bad in a book is also to suppress what is good therein...
...early part of the campaign, when we had time to be concerned about individuals who had been killed, I was deeply distressed as we identified our dead preparatory to writing letters of condolence to the next of kin. When the Catholic chaplain found one of his men, he performed a little rite that demonstrated his concern to the bystanders. He did something that satisfied their need for a token signifying their common distress. But when I found a Protestant boy, I could only gently cover his form again, while the spectators stood by in a silence heavy with disappointment...
Harvard Historian Schlesinger* is almost apologetic about this busman's holiday-a review of American books of etiquette from the 17th Century to the present day. "Nothing that concerns human beings can fail to concern the historian," he wrote; "the rise and progress of courtesy . . . deserves attention...