Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...votes in the presidential election: Capitalism is tottering to ruin. A "revolution" (Socialist) is at hand. Socialists must be prepared to set up their economic system when the time comes for "action" (political). Small groups of "parlor pinks" are worthless to the cause. Workers must be made class-conscious, must be given new and inspiring leaders for the "revolution." Organized labor offers no such leaders because unions have gone in for racketeering. And: "The origin of racketeering is obviously in the Capitalistic system. Capitalism, essentially lawless and brutal, is inherently a racket but in America it is more blatantly...
Mayor O'Brien sat for ten years upon the surrogate's bench. Mayor Walker was famed for conscious witticisms. Mayor O'Brien is already celebrated for humor of another kind. Some O'Brienisms...
...basis that an alien element would thus be introduced in the House dining halls. Undoubtedly the first reaction of a House member on entering his dining room and seeing a large table filled with the members of other Houses does not tend toward making him become more House-conscious, nor is the House spirit of men at training tables in this situation necessarily increased. Moreover, difficulties and dissension will undoubtedly arise in various quarters over the choice of Houses as sites of the training tables...
...cloister were as bad as had been represented, or had reason to expect that the family budget would somehow permit them to spend a peaceful year in the graduate schools. If one reads the correct meaning into the statistics, it has taken two years for college men to become conscious of the fact that the Depression was anything more than a blemish in newspaper headlines...
...criticism of Dryden and Johnson," Eliot said, "was appropriate in a period of stasis. That of Wordsworth and Coleridge was appropriate to a period of conscious change. In Arnold we find another effort at stabilization, somewhat abortive and premature...