Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mount Holyoke. "Tell It to the Marines" was her summary of his qualifications to succeed her in office. It is not clear whether she hopes he will return to his war-time profession or whether she speaks as delegate-emeritus to the Disarmament Conference. An excess of self-conscious femininity started the tempest in South Hadley, and the longer the feathers and epithets fly between the women the closer their claim of equality approaches a slur on the dominant...
...they should have a working knowledge of Freshman courses; for this purpose the college could publish a pamphlet requiring each professor who enrolls Freshmen in his course to give a concise hundred-word description of it. Lastly and most important, advisers must be elevated to a new dignity, made conscious of their usefulness, and compensated for their services...
Proctor McCormick started with a warning: "Unless we ... become conscious of our most vital problems and set about to solve them immediately, the time is not far distant when the profession of the law will have degenerated to a huckster business or else some violent change will do away with it entirely...
...major problem for most college crew coaches. Coxswains must be strong enough to steer the shell straight, shrewd enough to detect faults in the crew's performance, aggressive enough to correct them, good-natured enough not to mind an occasional ducking for their pains. Until crew-conscious alumni start subsidizing midgets, cox-swains who fill these requirements but still weigh less than 120 Ib. will be scarcer than good halfbacks. Last week in England, crew coaches at Oxford, which hopes on March 24 to win the Boat Race against Cambridge for the first time in 14 years, were paradoxically...
...upshot of all this is that a market has been made already for northern shrimps--the newspapers have made the public shrimp-conscious, especially in Maine--and several fishermen are planning to buy, or have already bought, the necessary equipment with which to begin shrimping. What success they will have is yet to be seen...