Word: concernments
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...they can unite in certain specific issues, without impairing the autonomy of any one of them. In view of the paramount importance of keeping our country out of war, the undersigned organizations feel called upon to unite in urging students to join this pilgrimage, in accordance with the particular concern of all three organizations with the maintenance of peace for America. Harvard Student Union American Independence League Harvard Pacifist Association...
...intent on maintaining their advantage, proclaimed (TIME, Jan. 1) that: "Beyond the limits of bourgeois laws and customs, which ordinarily are probably necessary, it can become an exalted task even outside wedlock for German women and girls of good blood to become -not frivolously but imbued with deepest moral concern-mothers of children begotten by soldiers moving to the front without knowing whether they will return or die for the Fatherland...
...which Hollywood does better than it does almost anything else and which Ernst Lubitsch does better than anybody else in Hollywood. Producer-Director Lubitsch, riding high again as a result of his success with Ninotchka, calls this one "a miniature Grand Hotel." But this time the improbable goings-on concern the paternal boss and clerks in the Budapest leather-goods shop of Matuschek (rhymes with hat-to-check) & Co. As the plot has as many complications as characters, much of the fun comes in watching Scripter Samson Raphaelson neatly tangle and untangle them without tying himself in a hard knot...
Main confessions in Life's a Circus concern Lady Eleanor's makeshift life. Tame boarding school was relieved somewhat by frequent transfers, midnight escapes, one harum-scarum period in the family of a Belgian baron, when she turned a pack of Irish wolfhounds loose in the crowded ball room of the British Embassy...
...ghost of financial stagnation first cast its shadow over Harvard in the first years of the Thirties. Since then the depreciation of its capital holdings and a steadily falling interest rate have curtailed its income seriously, as it has that of all investors; its primary concern has become conservation rather than expansion. This shrinkage has of course been a world-wide process, affecting not only universities, but business and government, in fact, the entire economic structure. Still, endowments continued to trickle in, and in the course of New Deal recovery even rose of half the pre-depression figure...