Word: concious
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...League, much to the delight of publicity men and attendance-concious athletic directors and to the frustration of coaches and bookies, is as weird as ever. Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth are doing better than expected; Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Cornell are somewhat disappointing. And then here is Brown, which should get sick of losing about the time the Bruins come to Cambridge, and Harvard, which is a little off the pace without Charlie Ravenel but nonetheless very much in contention for the title...
...Farewell Miss Julie Logan" Barrie manages to avoid much of the sentimentality so objectionable in some of his early works. He tells the tale with an appropriate simplicity, but on the other hand, he neither adds to its lucidity or excellence by his over-concious use of dialect. Because of the characters and a convincing reality, it is far from being an ordinary ghost story. And it will probably insure the author a popularity beyond the nursery in a modern, perhaps over-sophisticated world...
...plantation, distracted his loneliness with the pursuits that became a gentleman-drinking, dicing, riding. Sometimes he talked politics. Citizen Genet was rebuked; the country expanded westward; John Adams was elected President; Jefferson, with his large affectation of the homespun, became a power in the land. By degrees Bale became concious that he, always a staunch Federalist, was owning loyalty to a party discredited. He affixed to his hat the black cockade of his ances tors, and broke his riding-whip over the head of any man who looked askance at it. There were times when, whatever he might fee doing...