Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Collecting 218 names for her first petition took Mary Norton 17 days. Record for similar petitions was 100 names in a day. Last week, Mrs. Norton was so conscious of the difficulty of her task that she sent a wire to Indiana's Congresswoman Virginia E. Jenckes, asking her to make a special trip from home to sign her name. Mrs. Jenckes flew East but she arrived at the Capitol in time only to witness the celebration of an astounding victory...
Since then streamlining has become the bugaboo of U. S. industrial designing. Popularizers like Norman Bel Geddes have made citizens visually speed-conscious, so that now even a refrigerator must look as if it is getting somewhere in a hurry. Up to the end of 1937 a total of 54 streamlined trains had been put on scheduled runs by 17 lines. Last week the two major Eastern lines, New York Central and Pennsylvania, announced that on June 15 they would streamline their crack trains. The Central's Twentieth Century Limited and Pennsylvania's Broadway Limited will...
Little girls from the time they are conscious of their own personalities want to be "glamorous." ... As boys identify themselves with daring heroes, girls identify themselves with the rescued heroine. Life as portrayed by Shirley Temple is life as it is known by most little girls...
...difficulty today, perhaps an individual one, is that the content and limitations of the newer rights are still obscure. The old pattern is thus broken but the new has yet to crystallize. And so we stand in hesitancy and doubt, conscious that we cannot and must not recreate the old, yet fearful...
...country is more anxious to demonstrate its freedom than Iran, no ruler anywhere is more conscious of his dignity, more jealous of his sovereignty, than His Imperial Majesty Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shah-in-Shah ("King of Kings") of Iran...