Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Held in Prague 14 years ago at the suggestion of Czechoslovakia's Founder-President Masaryk was the first International Management Congress. Last week, for its seventh get-together, the International Management Congress convened in the U. S. for the first time. Somewhat self-conscious about their messages of international cooperation, all but one of the 2,000 delegates from 21 nations tactfully avoided reference to last week's Czechoslovakian crisis. The one was Robert J. Watt, American Workers' Delegate to the International Labor Office. To avoid further offending visitors, five paragraphs of his speech relating to "Fascistic...
Potent in school elections, they found, are class-conscious citizens' groups, the Ku Klux Klan, Freemasons, whispering campaigns against Catholics, Jews and Negroes, and, in some cities, the Catholic Church...
...Mayer). In 1917 a young Omaha priest named Father Edward J. Flanagan borrowed $90 to start a unique U. S. institution: Boys Town, Neb., a home for waifs, run according to its founder's belief that there is no such thing as a bad boy. Lately grown acutely conscious of the problems of youth, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer naturally found in Boys Town cinematerial well up to the standard of that supplied by the Russell-Cotes naval training institution in England. The result, in this picture, is a companion piece to Lord Jeff, with Mickey Rooney replacing Freddie Bartholomew...
...attracting calamity, was playing in a pit when a sand slide began. Trying to scramble out. he tripped, fell, accidentally forced his head into an empty 2-lb. coffee tin. Two tons of sand rolled over him. When rescuers du? him out eight minutes later, muzzled John Johnson was conscious, unhurt...
...chains to the moon. For most citizens, that thought is likely to be more alarming than otherwise, but for Richard Buckminster Fuller it is profoundly reassuring: it suggests "the littleness of our universe" when viewed by an unfrightened mind, and it reminds him that man has been made too conscious of his physical smallness to be aware of his own powers and potentialities...