Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Irish Poet William Butler Yeats, conscious of his own worth, seats himself modestly midway at the long table of his peers. Irish Playwright George Bernard Shaw, who for years has twinklingly told the world that he is a greater man than Shakespeare, has now written a fable that will further shock the righteous. In it he puts himself on a level with Voltaire. Christ and Mohammed; he is a hero and the God of the Old Testament is a bogey-villain. In spite of his destructive wit which many even nowadays call blasphemous. Iconoclast Shaw is a kindly soul; like...
...Since societies exist only by the consent of their members, a withdrawal of consent (as in the case of Prohibition) nullifies society's laws and purposes. The history of the U. S., thinks Kallen, "is the history of an unremitting warfare in behalf of Individualism as a self-conscious way of life, with some successes and many frustrations"; "Democracy has not failed, because Democracy has not yet had a free chance to make good...
...rehabilitate the city's real estate and make it selfsupporting. Immediate purpose of the corporation, however, is to tide guaranteed-mortgage companies through the embarrassing task of meeting-and scaling down-$700,000,000 in maturing mortgages. Savings banks, insurance an a trust companies, which had been acutely conscious of the guaranteed mortgage companies' fix for months, were much relieved. Credit for the job went to New York Trust Co.'s Mortimer Buckner who had been laboring strenuously for several months...
...added emphasis reflects a more or less conscious imitation of Economics A. where, however, the subject and emphasis are entirely different and should not encourage copy. The importance of this distinction is clarified by the fact that the average student in Government 1 is unequal to the opportunities which free discussion offer; almost invariably the section degenerate into a whole-handed exposition of watery opinions or into a one-man tyranny of some able talker. In either case the result is the same, and the purpose of the section is defeated. Such a fact inevitably reflects upon the capacity...
City Negroes have congregated chiefly in Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Detroit, Indianapolis, Newark, New York, Philadelphia. Pittsburgh, Washington-"communities most of which are financially able to provide whatever may be needed in the way of control measures." These Negroes, numbering about 1,500,000, "intensely Race conscious," have higher tuberculosis death rates than their rural Southern cousins. But they are handier to deal with. As prime examples of tuberculosis prevention among Negroes, the National Tuberculosis Association last week pointed with pride...