Word: consciousnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the exception of a few scant offerings that are whispered of next week, today marks the culmination of the indoor season. So with only a faint admonition to patronize local industries, the Vagabond intends to depart to other climates. As a parasite upon intellectual life, however, he is conscious of the parries and thrusts, upon his nature, so that in self-defense, and perhaps to imbibe a final morsel of mental nourishment, he will listen to Professor Parker's discourse upon "Parasites," in the Zoology Lecture Room at 10 o'clock...
...coffee grinder at the bottom of the sea, go on turning out a man's salt for the rest of his life. An ordeal of caricature for both innocent and the guilty has been won by the swollen importance of undergraduate publication activity in the eyes of a self-conscious few. In reality these are outnumbered by the many who see it merely as one of the ways of learning his own possibilities. Such training may rarely produce vocational certainties and its specific usefulness is as various as individuals. Yet it is a testing wand which, if the student...
...Harvard man is a sort of vidette of American civilization. Far in advance of the main body, he has time to contemplate the masses with sympathy and compassion. While he is tolerant of others, he scarcely expects others to understand him. He enjoys an independence of action bred of conscious superiority...
Friends of the dynamic and air conscious duchess recall that she recently passed a vacation in Spain, dashing after mountain eagles in her plane. Not demented, she was merely seeking scientific data upon the flying characteristics of eagles and buzzards...
...millers of the three principal rice-growing states (Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana), meeting last week in New Orleans. They talked about the need for advertising in order to market effectively their annual output of 6,500,000 barrels of rice; planned an aggressive campaign to make the nation rice-conscious. Last week they met again in Jennings and talked about the same...