Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...similar pairs of hands. He displayed colored lantern slides of dozens of before-&-after faces. Lastly he ran off a colored movie* of an operation to repair a young woman's paralyzed features. The policemen grunted and whistled as they saw Dr. Sheehan inject novocaine and slice the conscious girl's head from eyebrow to ear, nick a rent at the corner of her lips. The girl's chest heaved as Dr. Sheehan's hands pulled her scalp away from the underlying muscles. The hands pushed a blunt pair of scissors under the skin...
Author Mann discovers in Joseph a mystic who, like all his long line, was conscious of "the transparency of being, the characteristic recurrence of the prototype." This is the theme, unpopular in an individualistic day, which opens up like a never-ending vista from Author Mann's pages. As a mere tour de force, in revivifying the fossilized record of a universally familiar legend. Young Joseph would be a masterpiece, but it is far more than a clever conjuring trick. In this installment, which covers only a few years of Joseph's life, leaves him. at the point...
...Dern went to Philadelphia to help celebrate the 17th anniversary of the establishment of that city's Ordnance Department, view an exhibit of armament in Reyburn Plaza opposite the City Hall. By the time the Secretary's visit was over he had been made thoroughly conscious of militant pacifism as practiced by Philadelphia Quakers. When he arrived at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel to speak at a dinner, he found young Quakers picketing the street, bearing placards such as: WAR IS ALWAYS WRONG and ARMAMENTS REPRESENT DEATH TO YOU BUT DIVIDENDS TO THE PRIVATE FIRMS. When, in Reyburn Plaza...
...Highly conscious of its small beginnings, its amazing growth and its venerable traditions is Crane Co. This great plumbing house likes to recall the fact that it was established in Chicago in 1855 as a "Brass & Bell Foundry" with one employe- Richard Teller Crane. It likes to recall that in 1930 it had 20,000 employes, one-fourth of whom had been with the com-pany ten years or more. It likes to use waste space on its printed matter or in display windows for maps showing its 150 branches and factories in the U. S. and Canada...
...Emperor, fluffy-whiskered Maximilian. Tragic Maximilian chose Morelia as the site for a summer palace. The building still exists as a museum administered by the state university, San Nicolas de Hidalgo de Michoacan. Last week Maximilian's old palace provided Mexican schoolboys with one more reason for being conscious of Morelia. In that hot little place black-coated government employes and peasants in straw sombreros gazed in open-mouthed wonder at one of the biggest, most effective frescoes in all Mexico, painted not by one of Mexico's famed group of revolutionary muralists, but by a pair...