Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...continuous and adept has been the publicity of Czechoslovakia's two great men that few foreigners realize there is a third. Everyone has heard just praise of President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk. Everyone is conscious of Foreign Minister Dr. Eduard Benes. But only the most alert can name the "Mystery Man" who has been Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia during the past six years. Beholding him one first notes his extraordinary pallor, then the round bald head, large mouth, short wide nose, piercing eyes, and dark overhanging brows. Such is Antonin Svehla...
...Children with braces on their teeth; children with governesses on their arms, children with adenoids, children with doting aunts, harassed mothers, hearty uncles, self-conscious fathers. Children with questions on their lips: "Mother, don't the ladies dwown when they go down in the water, Mother...
...Self-conscious collegiatism has reached the stage where it must be ignored rather than studied. At its best, it implies a uniform lack of originality. At its worst, it means the subservience of the individual to mass taste. The situation is analogous to the stampede of a herd of rattle-brained cattle. The difficulty arises in that the taste is questionable if not distinctly bad. This in turn results from a self-conscious disregard of any authoritative standard. The collegiate person cares little for the opinion or feelings of others. In the last analysis collegiatism is the result...
...School of Arts and Sciences derive directly from altered standards in undergraduate academic circles. It is in the lack of comprehension of such interrelations, which is dependent upon his limited viewpoint, that the undergraduate fails generally to achieve an intelligent interest in his own affairs. To make him University-conscious, in the sense of making him keenly aware of a kinship with other schools, is impossible, but such illumination as the annual report is welcome for its message to those who take the trouble to read...
...possession: and stands face to face with the inexpressible fury of concentrated spiritual rage, it is inexpressibly brought home to him that the potentialities for destructive power within the human mind are immeasurable and as appalling as a cosmic cataclysm. But when one feels all these things and is conscious of them, it simply leads one onward, as all men are in some measure intrigued by fire...