Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bears a curse because it rejected Him and resisted Him to the death when it became clear that Jesus of Nazareth would not cease calling [the Jews] to repentance and faith, despite their insistence that they were free, strong and proud men and belonged to a pureblooded, race-conscious nation...
...passenger license - not only for its Lockheed 14Hs but for all its ships-as punitive. They guessed that the Department of Commerce, up to its ears in criticism for having approved the fatal ship, would quickly restore Northwest's license, look for another goat. Said Senator Copeland, accident-conscious chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee: "Whether or not the structure of the plane was properly planned is the question and the embarrassing thing is that the plane was approved by the Department...
...with World-Art, Inc. (TIME, Nov. 1), things looked bad for Colonel de Basil's toe-dancers. Temperamental Massine had always felt that de Basil cramped his style, had long awaited a chance to launch a company all his own. The chance came when Chicago's art-conscious celebrity-chaser. Mrs. Charles B. Goodspeed, steered him toward Yeast Tycoon Julius Fleischmann, who had cherished a secret passion to patronize the arts. Upshot was the organization of the World-Art group with backing ($500,000) by Fleischmann, Harold F. McCormick and other Midwest socialites. De Basil lost not only...
...under the worst possible acoustical conditions. For outsiders, a snob value has raised ticket scalpers' prices to $25 a pair. When Radio Comedian Fred Allen's scriptwriter recently penned the lines: Q. "What's the difference between me and Toscanini?" A. "He has long hair," art-conscious NBC officials censored the gag. Apparently there is a house rule against kidding a reputation like the Maestro...
...their advantage, for they are without the ties, convictions, and prejudices of older men. Ideally they mould and crystallize that which is finest in undergraduate opinion, developing and stimulating undergraduate thought, while staying always one jump ahead of the college in pointing the way to reform. Ideally they are conscious of their obligation, as Dean Leighton once put it, "to be accurate in statements of fact, and cognizant of other possible views in statements of opinion...