Word: concernments
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...that Mr. Boyd is ever actually serious. He is at once too sensitive and too self-assured to become earnest in public. His concern with men is not vicarious. It is the concern of a formalist who takes you among men to show you the shapes of their minds, their ideas, their words and how they use them, their manners and how men are revealed therein. Being vigorous and Irish, he walks close beside you, pointing here, there, with nervous, witty gusto. Being excessively sensitive and shy, he hides himself behind a mask of erudite satire whenever...
...point has now been reached, however, where local taxation is a pressing burden on farmers, merchants, home-owners and even wage-earners everywhere. Local taxes, which were only $2,956,000,000 in 1919, have increased to $4,449,000,000. The tendency is one which may deeply concern all U. S. business interests in coming years...
...offering by a syndicate of Manhattan bankers of a $10,000,000 note issue in behalf of Germany's famed Krupp concern marks the first important piece of internal German financing thus far undertaken in Wall Street since the Experts' Plan. The loan is made to assure the great German company of working capital...
...Thayer Commons were started in the terminal station of the "Harvard Branch Railway which had just been forced out of business." This venture was so successful that in 1874, at the suggestion of President Eliot, who had been making extensive investigations on the subject both here and abroad, the concern was reorganized, expanded, and placed in the have of Memorial Hall, where it has remained until this...
...then the Treaty is a domestic concern and the Free State had no business to register it with the League. But, in this case, the British nation has several votes to the one possessed by each of the other nation members, a manifestly unfair situation which the British have hitherto declared did not represent the facts of the case...