Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...current problems is the married WAVES. Many would like to rejoin soldier and sailor husbands who have come back from overseas. It is a problem which is giving Miss Mac much concern. As she once said, "Women can be efficient and professional and still be women...
...others, the anxiety would concern matters less subtle and trivial. The picture of a trim, slim brunette with a baby in her arms appeared on the front pages of Miami newspapers not long ago. Ada Forren, the girl in the picture, is 18. She had married her Navy husband just four months before the baby was born; she had no assurance that she would ever see him again. In a childish fit of despair, Ada had given her baby away for adoption. Now she had to go to court to get the baby back. She did. But how would...
...Chinese lunar calendar) winter ends. Every such calendar has this day plainly marked. It says: "Eggs will stand upon their ends." Improbable though it seems, so they did. The Press Hostel compound was dotted with eggs foolishly, standing on end. Which end seemed to be of little concern to the eggs; they were erect on either their small ends or their large ends, and sometimes they even showed off by holding a leaning-tower stance...
...sharp increase in hatred of Germans. Perhaps Americans at home still look to ward Japan with deeper hatred, but front line troops in Europe turn their hate to ward the Reich, now that they have struggled with it in bitter combat. That sharpening of hatred is accompanied by increasing concern over what to do with Germany, and by a fellow feeling for the Russian Army, which still kills the most Germans...
Established in 1928 with funds from the Rockefeller Foundation, the lab is one of the first to concern itself with the physiology of fatigue in well, rather than sick persons. Its original problem was to discover what takes place in the human body when it is physically fatigued. With the coming of war, however, the laboratory has turned its attention more and more to the problems of our overseas armies...