Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this way: Suppose the Hooverites are downhearted now. Suppose Keynoter Fess prepares to extol the Coolidge virtues and record. Then, suppose Candidate Hoover is allowed more and more to inherit the Coolidge virtues, record and support. The effect upon Candidate Hoover might be to make him thoroughly conscious of his party obligations, his privilege. The effect upon his friends might be to fill them with a delight more keenly felt after anxiety. The effect upon the country might be to make the Hoover candidacy seem inevitable, irresistible. Meantime, right up to the moment the balloting begins and "potential" strength...
...great and effectual as it was when Edgar Lee Masters wrote of the Spoon River artist at Rome, with his work that looked now like Apollo, now like Lincoln. What has long gone without attention across the water still creates a tumult here. Chiselled marble brings a self-conscious blush to the cheeks of the New World, when it turns from its machines to play the esthete. And, after all why need it be ashamed of its lack of artistic sophistication: No European culture was budding let alone flowering, in as short a time as has elapsed since the settlement...
Along with the disappearance of that intangible force, public opinion and the undue emphasis placed on outside activities, another unfortunate tendency has developed. When a student feels that he is just one of 1600 members of an undergraduate school at New Haven and is not conscious that he is an integral part of his class, the natural reaction is to seek out men of his own stamp rather than resort to the company of the fellow next door. Instead of having a small and solid class unit, the tendency is for similar men of like interests to get together...
...confused with The New Masses, struggling, Manhattan organ of mass and class conscious intelligentsia...
Mary Baker Eddy, as she lingered on after 80, became more and more conscious of the malignance of her "enemies," against whom her disciples kept single watch around her bed, when she felt pain in the night. These enemies were the "mortal minds" most energetic in attacking her beliefs; they hung like a pack of phantoms around her neat house in Chestnut Hill and she could hear their painful voices screaming in the dark. Once she went for a drive with Mr. Dickey and said this to him on their return...