Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basic reasons for dissatisfaction among the miners lie in the fact that the coal industry is not a going concern in this country. In the marginal and submarginal mines, men work irregularly and only two or three times a week; the casualties in mine accidents are appalling, because the industry does not have the money to modernize and make safe the places where the men work. Most of the miners live on company property in little, dirty towns and have contact with the outside world only through their union; they have no essential security in job or home. Under present...
Some of the more spirited debates concern the personality of Superman; even shy children who clam up on everything else have strong opinions about the comics. Primary-graders talk about Cinderella, Dumbo and the Little Red Hen. More mature students may discuss the characters in Macbeth and how they got that...
Meanwhile Russell Austin, chairman of the American delegation to Prague and head of the University of Chicago AVC chapter, outlined the general aims of the forthcoming organization: "In American colleges and universities today there are issues which concern students directly and are of great importance. A nationally representative student organization can provide both a medium for the widest interchange of ideas among students and a basis for unified action on issues where general agreement is found to exist...
...Varsity's defensive workout was marked by the use of Bob Margairta, former Brown and Chicago Bear ace and backfield coach for the Crimson, who played the Bruins' Eddie Finn's quarterback slot for the squad imitating the Bear attack. Finn, whose back has been a cause of considerable concern to Coach Rip Engle this week, is the spark plug of the brown offense and their best passer. He is very likely to be ready against Harvard...
...love life of the silkworm had become a matter of grave national concern in Japan. Before the war, Japan had controlled about 85% of the world's silk market. Now she had to compete with U.S. nylon. Last week the patter of tiny feet in mating trays of Tokyo's Imperial Sericulture Experiment Station bore witness to the frantic race between Japanese entomologists and U.S. chemists...