Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Receiving money from the government with which to buy books, the G.I.'s bought all their texts early in the term. As their allotment was used up, the Veterans became more conscious of how they spent their money, the stores reported...
...think the TIME Current Affairs Test makes the boys conscious of the importance of knowing about world affairs," says James V. Moffatt, assistant to the headmaster and adviser to the Press Club at The Hill School. His opinion is echoed by Dr. James I. Wendell, headmaster for 24 years: "It's a fine contribution to the stimulation of student and faculty interest in national and international affairs. It encourages the boys to read widely...
...theatre collection started in 1903, with the gift from actor John Drew of the books he had amassed during his career. But the collection found its biggest aid in the rivalry of two theatre-conscious graduates. Robert Could Shaw '69 and Everett Wendell '82. Shaw and Wendell often bid against each other at auctions. In their efforts to outdo each other, both of them built up splendid collections of books and mementons of the theatre. In the end, both gave their collections to the University, and Shaw became the first curator, serving from...
...Hollywood, Lana Turner, who did her bit to make the public sweater-conscious, poured her well-known curves into a different mold, gave photographers a new waistline pose. Trussed almost breathless in a Gay Nineties corset, Lana said: "Girls with hourglass figures set off by those tiny waists had the right idea if beau-catching was their idea...
...shocker, especially to Catholics, but it is no dirty-minded, adolescent scrawl. Rossi, a precocious youngster who was himself kicked out of a Jesuit school at 14, sometimes makes hero Denis sound and feel older than his years. Occasionally both author and hero show their immaturity in awkward, self-conscious yammerings about life. But as a picture of an adolescent agonizingly in love, or even as a simple love story, Awakening is done with enough skill and taste to establish Author Rossi as the Flaubert of teenagers...