Word: concernments
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...maintaining an attitude of strict neutrality, mean nothing to the student whose eager hand can hardly wait to disclose a mind packed with information. It is only to the unfortunate who sees the lower gulfs yawning before him, and averts his eye in dismay, that external matters are of concern...
Significance. Billions of dollars are concerned; an international trade rivalry as bitter as any clash of armies. Usually the great oil powers respect each other's prices, markets, territories. Shell is rival of Standard of N. Y. and the powerful Standard of New Jersey (a separate concern whose attitude in the controversy is not yet clear) for oil control of the world. The price war may foreshadow a far reaching, dangerous disagreement with jealous, potent British commercial interests...
...cigaret or not. ... I am opposed to companionate marriage ... to any thing except permanent monogamy. . . . When a marriage has failed, divorce is the only solution." On top of this she rapidly repeated to her somewhat startled informants an apt parable to illustrate her point that religious bodies should not concern themselves with trifles. Then, tapping her chestnut stick at every step, she moved away...
...course (and with reason) that the interest taken in this subject is negligible when compared to that manifested by the Roman multitude in, the persecutions of the Christians. One may also maintain that the modern concern in this matte is purely philosophical: but there is little justification for this latter assumption. The modern attitude toward this subject, though of much smaller proportions than the ancient, is, nevertheless, of exactly the same nature. It is a vulgar pleasure taken in the knowledge of the mental agony experienced by "those about to die". But possibly the fault lies equally with the journalist...
...billy goat invited attention to the versatility of the Seaboard National Bank, whose officers constantly dealt with matters as far away and, as far separated as Oregon and Texas, where goats abound. The nanny goat's business was more intimate. She "was pertly stating in type that a concern across the continent from the billy's bank was selling canned goat milk "for babies, delicate children and invalids . . . who cannot assimilate cows' milk." Her company was Meyenberg Laboratories Inc., and its home Salinas, Calif...