Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Although sadly conscious of the fact that his efforts over a period of many years to educate the editorial staffs of the daily press to differentiate between "cable'' and "radio" as communications media for the transmission of foreign news despatches have been only moderately successful, the writer was profoundly chagrined to note that in its issue of Nov. 17, p. 15, TIME states that President Hoover despatched a "cablegram'' felicitating the King of Siam upon his birthday...
...right-hand swing, opened a gash under his left eye. Through the rest of that round, and all succeeding ones, Petrolle chased McLarnin round the ring, landed accurate, hard left hooks, floored him twice in the fourth round, bashed his vainglorious, boyish face into a bloody muddle. McLarnin, half conscious, streaked with blood that oozed from his eyes, his nose and a cut in his lower lip, fought back with courage. He won the ninth round and staggered through the tenth somehow. Winner Petrolle may soon be matched with Lightweight Champion Tony Canzoneri, to whom recently-before Canzoneri...
Many schools apparently produce cults in which the virtue of loyalty is regarded as primitive and unintelligent and patriotism the refuge of the feebleminded. This has considered pedagogical encouragement and inspiration, and young people, highly conscious of their liberalism, respond actively. That old notions are discreditable may be quite apparent to young liberals who may be more certain of themselves now than they will be later...
...cole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris, he first attracted general attention in the U. S. in 1907 by erecting the Great God Pan, at that time the largest single bronze casting in the country, on the campus of Columbia University. In 1919 the entire nation became Barnard-conscious when a replica of his great gaunt statue of Abraham Lincoln was erected in Manchester, England, to celebrate a century of British-U. S. peace. In 1925 John Davison Rockefeller Jr. bought for $600,000 The Cloisters, the beautifully arranged collection of Gothic sculpture and woodcarving which Sculptor Barnard had assembled...
With modern methods of high power salesmanship the consumer is overwhelmed by attempts to sell him objects and ideas. He may be docile enough to be air minded and education conscious and remember to drink sauerkraut juice for breakfast, but the sheep like quality of the average man has certain limits. The logical remedy for this situation is for all timid souls to band themselves together for the propagation of a Build Up Your Sales Resistance Week...