Word: concernments
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...strong nationalistic policy for the United States, Charles A. Beard, noted Columbia professor, defined national interest as acquiring what we need with the best possible advantage through imports and discontinuing the selling of American goods abroad. The plan he outlined raises many questions which he did not adequately concern himself with or think important...
Introducing another custom, the University Orchestra will give a concern in the Dining Hall on Wednesday, December 5. Students and their guests are invited to come. Parents of House members will be invited to the dinner and concert on that evening...
...leader in the White House had become a national hero. While still retaining the conservative South, the Party captivated North and West with a new brand of social reform and economic experiment. But, more important from a purely political standpoint, the Democratic party had become a going concern of tremendous proportions. Its machines in the North had been given new power (see p. 13) and the long disused national machinery, lubricated with Federal patronage and supercharged with fuel from the Federal treasury, had got up enough steam so that, barring major misfortunes, it was certain to go thundering down...
...down an unwritten decision granting the demurrer on the grounds that Mr. Belcher was being deprived of his property without due process of law, that the Recovery Act unlawfully delegated judicial and legislative powers to the President, that the lumber business is an intrastate affair and therefore no Federal concern...
...novel without a hero. The Executioner Waits is a modern tragedy in the most present sense: its changing choruses are spoken by and for plain people, in terms as actual as last week's events. But Author Herbst is no journalistic realist, no pamphleteer of Communism. Her concern for her characters is never political or moral: she never justifies or reviles them except through their own mouths and for their own private ends. Her objectivity results in a total effect almost alarmingly potent. Though her method eschews purple passages (the description of old Anne Wendel's death...