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Word: conscious (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cries. Then he saw a head bobbing toward him through the darkness. Gripping the bottom of the ladder with one hand, with the other he grabbed a man's limp body just before the filthy current swept into a 75-ft. down-drain. A rope pulled the half-conscious Debo up through the Grand Street manhole, 800 ft. from his starting point. Hospitalized, John Debo told his story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sewer Rat | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

...Born in Vienna in 1881, of rich Jewish parents, Stefan Zweig until the World War was more of a traveler than an author. His first popular work was an anti-War play, Jeremiah, produced in Switzerland to avoid German and Austrian censorship. He now writes to carry out a conscious literary program. Other translated works: Paul Verlaine, Emile Verhaeren, Romain Rolland, Passion and Pain, Invisible Collection, Conflicts, Adepts in Self-Portraiture, Joseph Fouché, Amok...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Salvation Without Salves | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

...excess of receipts, and that the city has a debt exceeding two billion dollars, is published the final report of the Seabury investigation. For almost six months the newspapers have been filled with the findings of this investigation, so that the conclusions are no surprise. People have long been conscious of Tammany's corruption; but few, if any, realized the proportions it had assumed. The Tiger had until lately given an efficient government, worth the price of a few peccadillos. But the final disclosure of the inquiry proves unanswerably that the graft is not petty, and that the government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIGER RAG | 1/26/1932 | See Source »

...then that his real name was Schlesinger, that he had taken the more euphonious name Walter after the hero of Die Meistersinger, an opera he conducted brilliantly when he was very young. After the long administration of Walter Damrosch, the New York Symphony was in a hopelessly lethargic state. Conscious of failure, he returned to Europe to increase his honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Conductor's Comeback | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

Throughout, one is conscious of the hand of an architect and most of the subjects contain architecture. It is rare, however, that an architect can give professional versimilitude to his subject matter and yet, at the same time, treat it so fundamentally from the point of view of painting. The exhibition is thus a delight to the connoisseur and enthusiast in water colour and to the architect who is interested in technique and the beautiful composition of architectural forms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR J. J. HAFFNER SHOWS WATER COLOURS EXHIBITION AT BOSTON | 1/21/1932 | See Source »

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