Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Hoover's method of approach to this problem there is no sign that he is conscious of attacking the problem from a new point of view; indeed, I am quite sure he has no such consciousness, nor any other from of self-consciousness about his relation to it. Yet a student examining the steps taken by the President and the comparatively small number of his public utterances on this subject can find evidence of what is in fact the case, namely, a man with scientific and engineering training approaching the problem of increasing the assurance of peace; a mind...
...only left his mark on his time, but had erected monuments and written books to perpetuate and explain his career. His "singing tower," where the drowsy carillon tintinnabulates at sunset as bony red flamingos fly home ward, was the final gesture of an unusually self-conscious romanticist. Other gestures which followed his retirement in 1919 from the editorship of the Ladies' Home Journal...