Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make a fingerpainting a large sheet of wet glazed paper is spread flat on a marble or linoleum-covered table and big blobs of colorful sludge dropped on it. This is sloshed about with both hands, the finger nails, even the elbows, without conscious effort at drawing, until the amateur artist likes the result. The teacher is then called and the work given a name-"A Greedy Horse with a Long Neck," "Men Fishing Before They Are Drowned"-and the picture, the table and the child set aside to dry. Inventor Shaw is extremely proud of the fact that after...
...ground when he says that an educated person is one who can tell a good man when he sees him. Education helps character to the extent that it builds up a critical faculty which can see the good from the bad. * * * (The educated man) is intellectually honest; he is conscious of what he has and of what...
Oilman Doherty has, of course, not forgotten his billion-dollar Cities Service Co.. in which he owns one-third voting power. He is conscious of even such small details as the news last week that his experimental Surface Combustion plant in Toledo has perfected a new gas furnace which may revolutionize glassmaking. And he beamed last week when he was handed a telegram bearing glad tidings from the West...
...worked chiefly as a factfinder and cheerleader, with 44 State branches, to make the nation "illiteracy-conscious." In last week's report it pointed out that "examples of what has been accomplished by intensive effort are found in Louisiana, where some 90,000 illiterates were placed under instruction, and in Georgia where 118,000 were given similar help." The nation-wide illiteracy percentage, as of the census of 1930, is 4.3%, with 4,283,753 persons ten years and older unable to read or write any language. Illiteracy has dropped one-third in the past decade. The Midwest...
...work to put the blame on him. As Board of Health terrier he should have smelled out the rat that polluted the town's water supply. The "better element." cumulatively exasperated by Doc Bull's plain speaking and low living, rally to get his scalp. With conscious irony Author Cozzens lets the town villain, smart Henry Harris, save Dr. Bull's hair by turning the laugh on his enemies, persuading the town that the Doctor is not such a bad old fellow after...