Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editing a daily paper are among the activities occupying the day of the neophyte trying out in the news field. As the competition progresses, specialization of coverage is generally the rule, and goings on in labor, Cambridge politics, the Dean's office, and the like, are the daily concern of the candidates, each of whom becomes expert in his own field...
...deepest concern to the Allies were German activities on the upper reaches of their Westwall. As far north as Wesel and Emmerich, where the Rhine turns west to enter the Netherlands, workers were observed completing casemates and tank traps opposite the neutral Dutch soil. Why? Near Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) just across the border from the Limburg point which runs down between Germany and Belgium, heavy concentrations of Nazi airplanes were reported, and heavy new concentrations of ground troops, apparently brought over from the Polish front...
...itself, good-by to culture." Soon the tempest in a Tarnhelm reached the august portals of British Broadcasting Corp., where wax-mustached Conductor Sir Adrian Boult solemnly clucked: "The BBC contemplates no ban on any musical work by reason of its composer's nationality. BBC's concern is to provide good musical programs...
...faith in his Communist beliefs and his support of the Soviets, saying "I cannot now defend the pact, but I can conceive of history's justifying it . . . After all, the Soviet Union is a Socialist commonwealth, and, even if it makes mistakes, its fate is of the utmost concern to every believer in socialism...
...Assistant Professors," he gives vigorous expression to a student view of the vital changes being wrought by the administrative appointment policy. This view, which has found similar expression in other student publications, can hardly be better put than in Mr. Ross's own words: "Undergraduates are naturally concerned with the threat to Harvard education, rather than with the more remote issues of faculty security and academic democracy. We are disturbed at the abrupt departure of many of Harvard's outstanding teachers. We dislike being deprived of brilliant lecturers and stimulating tutors. We resent the consequent impairment of educational standards...