Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inevitably to the conclusion, which Washington so often expressed with reference to military leadership, that the best leaders almost inevitably come from what is called "the ruling class." Thus, England's earliest educational development, indeed, almost her only advanced educational development until 1870, was the highly exclusive and class-conscious "public schools" and universities...
Officials of Harvard University's Widener Memorial Library were used to the sallow, bespectacled little man who habitually smoked a corncob pipe. Because he said he was preparing himself to be a professor they let him roam the library as much as he liked. Last week they became sharply conscious of Joel Clifton Williams, 49, of Dedham. Mass. He was under arrest, charged with pilfering 1,804 books worth $15.000 from Widener Library...
Though she had won so much, Concubine Shu Fei still smarted last week under the rebukes of her brother. He, a confirmed bootlicker of Manchus, had reminded her by letter that the duty of an Imperial concubine is, of course, to commit suicide rather than displease her lord. Conscious of this moral duty, Shu Fei cried last week, "But I had planned to kill myself, I swear...
...organization of atoms, electrons, protons, radiations and quanta. From this "uncertain nebulous underworld, there seems to crystallize out, or literally to materialize, the macroscopic world. . . . We rise to new levels as later on we pass from the physical to the biological level, and again from the latter to the conscious mind. But-and this is the significant fact-all these levels are genetically related and form an evolutionary series; and underlying the differences of the successive levels, there remains a fundamental unity of plan or organization which binds them together as members of a genetic series, as a growing, evolving...
...famed Adams family, though he has been their biographer (The Adams Family, TIME, June 16. 1930), is a roving Manhattanite who traces his ancestry to English settlers in Virginia in 1658. He thinks he has lived long enough abroad to have attained an objective view of the U. S. "Conscious, on the one hand, of no sectional prejudices, but only of being an American, on the other he has grown increasingly conscious of how different an American now is from the man or woman of any other nation." Big-eared, big-eyed, with professorial pince-nez, a clipped mustache over...