Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vancouver is a boom city as civic-conscious as the U. S. cities across the border. Fed, like them, by lumber, mines, wheat and fish, mainland Vancouver has grown fast, while older snobbish Victoria on Vancouver Island across the Strait of Georgia has hugged its reputation as "a little bit of England on the shores of the Pacific." In 1885, when the Canadian Pacific Railway reached the coast, insular Victoria looked down on the brawling mill town of Gastown, named for a saloonkeeper, "Gassy Jack" Deighton. To the rage of Victoria's aristocrats, Canadian Pacific officials renamed Gastown Vancouver...
...each first place, five for each second, four for third and so on down to one for sixth in each event, Germany had the highest number of points in the XIlth Olympic Games with 580 to 470 for the U. S.* More surprising than that the huge, populous, sport-conscious U. S. contrived to finish second was that nooks and crannies like Austria, Italy, The Netherlands and Egypt beat all rivals at canoeing, fencing, girls' swimming and weight lifting respectively...
...would hardly do for Greece to have another revolution just as her waters gave hospitality to yachting British King Edward VIII. Yet in Athens last week Greek King George II was conscious of revolution brewing. Soviet newsorgans were boasting openly that Moscow had just sent some $2,400,000 to aid the Reds of Spain, and the Reds of Greece had also begun to flourish. One night last week His Majesty was kept up late by the Greek Cabinet. The Premier, General John ("Little Moltke") Metaxas, has been frankly pro-German ever since he rated high as a young officer...
Briefly, the bicuspid-conscious critics of your movie reviewer display much more chivalry than imagination in their outrage. . . . Instead of limiting themselves to nasty remarks about your reviewer, I suggest that they start a fourth-party movement in defense of Miss MacDonald's molars...
Author Peattie has not been content merely to sketch the lives and achievements of his heroes; a consciously literary writer and a conscious naturalist, he plugs in many a purple passage, many a first-hand observation of Nature. Readers may be either awed, captivated or annoyed by his literary airs, but many a city-dweller who cannot tell the birds from the wild flowers will find his naturalistic enthusiasm contagious...