Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excellent example of Communist doctrine, with the logic of Communism carefully deleted and the idea of the "inevitability of revolution" characteristically emphasized. All the standard patter is there, adopted at second hand from the best authorities. For example, we are told that "pacifism (is) thus revealed as a conscious process of capitalist imperialism,"--by the defection of individual pacifists during the war. This statement is one of many which are all presented, of course, as their own justification...
...chief technical difficulties were: to dry four layers of ink in a fraction of a second; to find color pigments cheap enough to be practicable; to correct "register" at high speed. While Mr. Wood experimented, Col. McCormick was not idle. In an effort to make his pressmen color-conscious he had them experiment with the old fashioned makeready color processes until they could turn out fairly presentable two-and three-color advertisements. Last week's crude red frontpage cartoon was the last step in the Tribune's color education before graduating to the complicated four-color Wood presses...
...Father) who died lately at Poona at the reputed age of 130. Meher Baba soon had a vision of his divine nature. For nine months he lay in a coma, came out of it "merged into God." It is explained that many people are in such a super-conscious state but few can remain in touch with the world, like Meher Baba, and help others to attain divinity...
Bear Parade. Before the committee reviewing stand began to pass a parade of almost legendary figures-men whose names committeemen and the Wall-Street-conscious public had linked with million-dollar deals, but whose persons had hitherto been concealed in the abysses of Wall Street. Leading the parade was Matthew Chauncey Brush. In marked contrast to Mr. Whitney's quiet precision (which irritated Chairman Norbeck to the point of shouting: "You're hopeless!") was the bluff readiness-to-tell-all of Witness Brush. Mr. Brush greeted Counsel Gray (an old friend), blithely told how he started in Boston...
Informally correspondents were told: "The most serious feature of the situation in Japan at present is the collapse of agricultural values, including that of raw silk, to a price level at which the farmers who make up half Japan's population simply cannot repay the bankers. The Government, conscious that the farmers are laboring under an unbearable load, hopes to lighten this burden by a devalorization of the yen, but how this is to be accomplished has not been decided...