Word: consciousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more likely, in my opinion, being used for internal purposes. If there are only 14 men all eyeing one another, deeply conscious of the enormous population they hold in chains of mind and spirit, enforced by terror, it may well be that they think it pays them and helps them to perpetuate their rule by representing to the otherwise blindfolded masses of the brave and goodhearted Russian people that the Soviet Government stands between them and a repetition of the horrors of invasion which they withstood, when it came, so manfully...
Last week President Grau, still the man of Cuba's 1933 revolution, still conscious that revolutionists' votes elected him in 1944, freed the expeditionaries (including three Americans) and stood by Minister Alemán. Compelled by a Senate vote of no-confidence and Army pressure to shift Alemán from the Education Ministry, he immediately made him minister without portfolio. After all, as last week's welcome showed, Dominican freedom is still a popular cause in Cuba...
...night sky. It had been painted by an unknown, 34-year-old Philadelphian named Henry Kallem, who submitted it without much expectation of winning a prize. Like last year's prizewinning What Atomic War Will Do to You, Kallem's half-abstract canvas bore a socially conscious title: Country Tenement. Explained Kallem: "My idea was to show how I felt seeing this scene one evening in the country-all the people crowded into one building with all that space around. I tried to achieve a somber mood...
...special bottle of oxygen may fix that. But the "opening shock" at high altitudes is too great to risk. It is better to fall into denser air before using the parachute. Wright Field has developed a gadget that opens the chute at the proper altitude, whether the pilot is conscious...
Prime movers in the probe are Chandler Davis 2G, representing the Graduate Advisory Council, and Bernard Marcus 2L of the Record. They said last night that they were acting in response to wide criticism from dollars-and-cents-conscious family men in the graduate schools. "Clearly, medical attention costs the student too much," the Record had editorialized...