Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...everything he could lay hands on. He was soon calling himself an Atheist; at 16 he joined the Socialist Party. He wrote poems at such an alarming rate that he realized it was a bad habit; what chiefly disgusted him was that his verses were so sentimental and God-conscious. College being out of the question, when Floyd finished school he went to work in a candy factory, graduated (often by expulsion) to other jobs, till he gravitated into journalism. At 21 he was a reporter on the Chicago Evening Post, was soon assistant to brilliant young Francis Hackett...
There is no need to go on. This is the making of a crusader. But when the Vagabond had finished it he was reconciled to the fate of "Munsey's" and willing to confess that the moral which once accompanied every lurid fable had slipped his memory. So, conscious of the error of his ways, he abandons his golden dream, his plans for the future of the Harvard Critic, and return to "Fanny Hill," the only safe resort of those in search of literary excitement...
...world should not see in our gathering here an expression of a wish to acquire new laurels on the battlefield. The German people are conscious of the fact that no war could come which could ever give us more honor than we acquired in the last one. For it was greater honor to hold off, bravely, courageously, valiantly, a superior force for four and one-half years, than it was an honor for 20 nations to conquer one nation...
...that Armour & Co. must earn before it will have any profits to pay dividends on its own preferred and common stock. Adding the fact that some $10,000,000 of unpaid dividends have accumulated since 1931 on Armour & Co.'s preferred stock, Mr. Lee was conscious that save by a re-organization there was small prospect of any Armour dividends for a long time to come...
...good humor he will doubtless laugh, but at what? Sober-sided Critic Edmund Wilson gives as his opinion that: "Miss Stein is trying to superinduce a state of mind in which the idea of the nation will seem silly, in which we shall be conscious of ourselves as creatures who do not lend themselves to that conception." Still puzzled, the plain reader dips into another Stein volume (Tender Buttons), to his astonishment brings up these...