Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korea 2½ years ago. She was frightened and ostracized by the other village children. I came in contact with Mr. Holt on his first trip to Korea, and this little girl was one of the first he adopted; I shall always remember him for his genuine love and concern for the destitute children of Korea...
Germany's concern for freedom and democracy has led to its phenomenal political and economic recovery in the last ten years, President Emeritus James B. Conant '14-said last night in the second of three Godkin Lectures...
...committee, formally appointed only two weeks ago, arose from the faculty's concern over the shortage of teachers in the face of rising student enrollments throughout the country...
...primarily a matter of attitudes. By an educated man I mean one who has achieved a self-knowledge of his ignorance and consequently has waked up from his dogmatic slumber; one who has a sense of wonder leading to active inquiry--and here I have in mind a concern for the truth, rather than showing off one's cleverness. Finally, education should give a man the most rigorous methods and standards, thus ensuring that his inquiry is disciplined and effective. Great aims involve great risks; independence may turn into arrogance, glibness be mistaken for understanding, showmanship replace truthmanship. Raphael Demos...
...years ago, i.e. The Cambridge Review spent a lot of time and pages thinking about the problems of artistic creation and criticized the Advocate for failing to concern itself with such matters. While the latest is sue (December) of the Advocate gives no indication that the magazine itself will ever accept the challenge, it does show clearly that some of the writers it publishes have. One of its poems, "Report of the Artist's Progress to his Doctor" by A. E. Keir Nash is specificaly concerned with the artist and another, "The Exhortation to an Audience, to be Still...