Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yorkers were made conscious of the fleet's arrival more by what came over in the air than by what lay in the water or, later, walked in the streets. Simultaneously with the battleships an enormous naval air fleet visited New York City. From the carriers Lexington, Saratoga and Langley lying miles away in Hampton Roads, via Washington where President Hoover stood at attention as they passed, 134 planes flew to a rendezvous at Staten Island, then swept up the bay over towered Manhattan. They flew in tight, three-plane V-formations which in turn formed larger...
This idea seems more and more like the sort of thing everyone's been thinking about for a long time. It's been mulling about in the sub-conscious desires of the campus and if it has anywhere come to light, it has only been a kind of wish fancy. Now we want to do a bit of wishful thinking coupled with some real freedom-giving action. Wherefore The Dartmouth comes forth to you waving banners of revolt from the accepted uncomfortable conventional...
After reading the attorney general's report, the Governor of Massachusetts last week wrote to the police commissioner of Boston: "I require the immediate presentation of your resignation." Commissioner Wilson declined to resign, replied that he was "conscious of no neglect," criticized the attorney general for "garbled phraseology...
...potent Principal Robert Russa Moton, Organizer Holsey is well able to handle his work. He has written numerous articles on the Negro in business. He also wrote "Learning How to be Black" for the American Mercury. Although in this essay he said, "At fifteen, I was fully conscious of the racial difference, and while I was sullen and resentful in my soul, I was beaten and knew it," his interest and perseverance in his work show no passive defeatism. When not at work, he likes dancing, theatres. Now in Manhattan, he acclaims The Green Pastures, recalls King Dodo, seen...
...which the hand, the head, and the heart go together." "Art," hazards John Galsworthy, "is that imaginative expression of human energy, which through technical concretion of feeling and perception, tends to reconcile the individual with the universal, by exciting in him impersonal emotion." Ralph Waldo Emerson declared: "The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action...