Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...erection is staunch and living, and it is evident that its intense beauty will cause a Sunday fervor among the undergraduates. But in the student mind of the day, that fervor, born of music, mysticism and impressiveness, is essentially pagan and orgiastic. It is not, of course, the conscious eating of a pot of honey of the grave. But still, if the free intellectual inquiry of the past two centuries has received at last a dusty answer, its late linking with Romanistic and esthetic mysticism should shed no very tasteful fruit. Since the student rarely feels the great sorrows...
...Significance. André Maurois in-itroduces Author Green as "the best novelist of his generation." Others have declared him Balzacian, and murmured of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, for his uncanny realism is not of the modern self-conscious variety. Master of detail-heavy odor of wistaria over the garden wall, crunch of wheels on the gravel, pebbles shaping the brook into a plaited pattern-no single word is superfluous, and each image blends into an unforgettable whole...
Copley at 8.30--"He Walked in Her Sleep". Supplants "The Wrecker" as the Copley's Conscious Comic Contribution...
Besides providing these addenda to earth's natural equipment, the I. T. & T. stockholders provided for their own profit and comfort by re-electing directors who have supported President Sosthenes Behn in his amazing expansion of the business. Many financially conscious persons noted for the first time that two of the company's directors are Spaniards, one count, one marques...
...years. That it was still alive, President Coolidge could plainly see. As he discussed its merits with Senator Mayfield and some other Texans, he pointed at it, not with his finger, but with the bars of his horn-rimmed spectacles. This gesture, observers realized, was not a conscious precaution against a bite or horned warts. Pointing with the bars of his spectacles, indefinitely, with both bars at once, is a gesture President Coolidge habitually employs to indicate a document or memorandum under discussion...