Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mistake. In a few months Zhdanov turned his distrust in another direction. As boss of Leningrad, he was acutely conscious of a danger he saw from nearby Finland. His fear led him into the one great boner of his career: he persuaded Stalin that the Finns would collapse easily. After the courageous Finnish defense ended that delusion, Stalin made a somber crack to Zhdanov: "So things are going normally on the Finnish front, huh? Well, when the Finns get to Bologoe [halfway between Moscow and Leningrad], let me know...
...Reisner bequest will fill out Harvard's haphazard collection of detective stories, started by such mystery-loving professors as the late George Lyman Kittredge. History-conscious Harvard keeps them for research purposes, buys a half dozen new titles every year because they reflect "part of the American scene." It 'makes no attempt to circulate them widely. Says Librarian Keyes D. Metcalf uneasily: "We are a research library, and I should think that anyone who wanted a detective story would go to some other library...
...gives her." She encouraged Roedean girls to go on to a university (one in eight does, a high average in England), was pleased that many of the present crop planned professional careers-in medicine, law, music, art. By current-events classes, Miss Tanner tried to make the 367 girls conscious of the world outside, not long ago held special prayers for U.N.'s Trygve Lie (father of Old Roedeanean Guri...
After Pioneer Rainsford's retirement, the church's liberal, socially conscious tradition was carried on under high-church-baiting Dr. Karl Reiland,* since 1936 under solemn pacifist Dr. Elmore McKee. Last June, after ten years' service, 50-year-old Dr. McKee resigned because of "fatigue." Next month, a new rector will take over: tall (6 ft. 3 in.), bespectacled Edward Miller, 31. Born in St. Louis, he was graduated from Harvard (where he was fencing captain), studied for a year at Cambridge, then at New York's General Theological Seminary before taking his present...
Even prior to the demise of OPA, student veterans were conscious of the inadequacy of their sixty-five or ninety dollar subsistence allotments. Now that prices are rising, unchecked, these allotments are covering less and less of a student's necessary expenditures. This is the case not at Harvard or Ivy League schools alone, for the cost of living has risen almost uniformly over the entire country...