Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impervious to criticism is Benito Mussolini. He explained last week the series of fiery speeches in which he not long ago called cannon beautiful (TIME, May 26, et seq.). Conscious that the French press has been painting him successfully as a war monger, Il Duce said with quiet earnestness...
...myth-conscious? Not by a long shot, not by many generations. But national-myth-lovers feel a lack, wish to hurry a natural process and supply some U. S. legends readymade. Here is Frank Shay's gallant attempt. He has gathered (and perhaps embroidered) yarns about ten mythical U. S. heroes. Says he: "Their achievements are exaggerations. Their sagas are tales of the impossible. They are as American as our national weakness for boasting. They are, after all, ourselves as we might wish to be." Among Shay's figures...
...study as far as possible. The most conspicuous aspect of these recommendations is the emphasis laid on the student who is interested in his work. Indeed, the whole trend of the investigation lies far from the position of forced education, far, even from the idea of education through a conscious stimulation by an instructor, tutor, or professor...
...rainy day, the recent football game quite naturally became a topic of conversation. Miss Gilmore said that she was a bit annoyed at not being able to be present at the weekly spectacles. "However," she added, "it was little Albie Booth at Yale that really made me football conscious. There is something romantic about his marvelous ability. It is a sort of Saint George and the Dragon, Machiavelli, Ubermench combination, and I should love to watch him play. To see him run down the field and Oh but I mustn't forget that you are Harvard...
Intensely race-conscious, Negro press devotes itself exclusively to Negro news, or to news as it affects the Negro. Unless otherwise specified (e. g., "Helen...