Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Summing up in Science, Dr. Gregory noted that the idea of a comparatively recent divergence of man from the anthropoid stem is generally repugnant to "that self-conscious and conceited prig who calls himself Homo sapiens and is fond of acting like the viceroy of God." He points out that some scientists who ought to know better keep toying with the idea that, during the general evolution of the vertebrates, a sort of separate channel was set aside for the line which was eventually to flower...
...since 1934 the might of the U. S. Navy is leaving the Pacific. Maneuvers in the Atlantic and Caribbean, and a ceremonial visit to the New York World's Fair of 1939, were planned over a year ago, before Franklin Roosevelt and the U. S. people became ultra-conscious of Europe and South America. Now the fleet's move has another significance: to bolster the President's "continental solidarity," and remind Europe's fascists that the U. S. is still a major power in the Atlantic...
From a candid camers photograph, taken by a drama-conscious customer, Colonel Apted had suspected Geer of being related to a salesman jailed for similar activities several years ago. He declined to state whether or not his suspicions were confirmed...
...brilliant, hard-working student who finished his undergraduate course in three years, took an M. A. in his fourth. His interests were always violently eclectic, never popular. He fancied French poets but abhorred the self-conscious readings at Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland's rooms, and shied away from the spectacular new drama courses of George Pierce Baker. Harvard scholars then had a Teutonic reverence for degrees, and after a graduate year in Paris Eliot returned to Harvard and worked for a Ph.D. in philosophy, studying Sanskrit and Pali on the side. His Ph.D. thesis on F. H. Bradley...
...western world, Christianity might sometimes seem an old, unhappy, far-off thing; but in the East, the bright star still went before, was still followed by eager seekers asking "Where is He?" Christ's mission on earth was a missionary enterprise: Go ye therefore, and teach all nations. . . . Conscious of this command, and its full implications in an increasingly un-Christian world, on Christmas Day many a Western-Christian looked toward India, where, at Madras Christian College, 450 Christian men and women from 65 nations were gathered last week...