Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same time the Board has been conscious of one of the chief difficulties which colleges encounter in admitting students. This is the inability to judge the value of certificates which admit students to college without examination, when those certificates are issued by small and remote schools whose marking systems and standards are unknown. For this reason colleges frequently admit men in no way qualified for advanced work, with the natural result of retarding the whole educational process...
...thousand petty realities. Sadly the wandering scholar sought an open gate into the Yard and passed into Widener's murky shadow. Like a prison, its sides honeycombed with the ghostly glow of half-lit cells, it dominated the night. Up the broad marble steps the Vagabond climbed, dimly conscious that he had tasted a life and a time foreign to the ordered scholasticism of this place...
...Daniel J. Elliott, 67-year-old lumber dealer of Salisbury, on the eastern shore of Maryland. Last week, a few hours after the crime, the Eastern Shore upheld its reputation for being a fringe of the Deep South. Six men marched into the hospital where Williams lay, only partly conscious because he had shot himself in the chest and his employer's son had shot him in the head. A mob of 2,000 turned out to see rough-&-ready justice done. They strung up the blackamoor, blinded by bandages, to a tree on the court house lawn. After...
...situations to be faced are a daughter's going off and living with an architect for two years before he marries her; and her brother's unhappy marriage with a poisonous Bohemian. The parents, particularly the mother, accept their woe with a good deal of self-conscious martyrdom. Spectators, aware that Playwright van Druten has done a faithful job of domestic reporting, leave After All with a tendency to remark: "What of it?" Margaret Perry, a pretty girl with eyes that turn up at the corners, easily turns in the best performance and if the actors had something...
...thousands of followers in Germany. Last year she started bewitching the U. S. but her time was short. She began again last week in Providence, R. I., had the mixed reception that daring exhibitionists must expect. Most people applauded her wildly or sat in a state of self-conscious hush. Some groped for her message and were honestly perplexed. A few irreverents were amused at what seemed to them mere prancing, lunging and meaningless posturing...