Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Organization." Thus for the first time it became publicly known that the physicians of an important division in the nation's third biggest hospital* had taken out union cards, a situation unparalleled in U. S. medical history and a matter of grave concern to most of the ethics-conscious profession...
Everybody, everything is always self-conscious of the end in view and is made over-incidental throughout the regulation reels to the eventual moment of disaster. Like "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" the tragic ending might have been written first, and the rest filled in backwards. Here is one statuesque character walking steadfastly to doom over a mess of minor...
...brick tenements, farm lands, and a batch of securities. Miss Parsons insists on living in one half of a frame duplex house without electricity or bathtub, wears cotton hose and gingham dresses, likes to haggle with grocers over not quite fresh foods. As kindly as she is money-conscious, she has been known to spend several hundred dollars for kneeling stools for her church or to send a tenant a load of wood day after she has censured him for not paying his rent...
...operations in which he had a part, Sommerfield can tell little, indeed knew little beyond his immediate experiences. "In a war you are lost, you are like atoms in a chemical reaction, you are lost in a boiling confusion in which you are not conscious of the part you are playing. Whatever you are fighting about in a war, it is a long way away, and you are nothing." He was in University City for a while, sniping from the windows of rooms whose floors were a crunch with shattered laboratory equipment, littered with blasted furniture. Then as the Rebel...
...capital got involved in the thing there was hell to pay. Before you could say genus Molge there were newts all over the place: newts (bred now scientifically in huge watery enclosures and farmed out as cheap labor) building dams and breakwaters, reconstructing shorelines and adding to continents; newt-conscious intellectuals and artists, newt-inspired cinemas and musical comedies; newt-problems before the League of Nations. End comes, of course, when the newts, armed by now and tired of it all, rise against their masters and begin blowing up dams, breakwaters, shorelines and continents while mankind, in a dither, retreats...