Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...England, all of which own paper mills. To be sure, in these cases it is the press that owns the paper company. However, Mr. Graustein was able to cite the case of William Harrison, British paper maker, who owns a chain of newspapers and magazines (TIME, March 25). Conscious nonetheless of the U. S. tradition against any invasion of the freedom of the press or control of it by special interests, Mr. Graustein declared that in no case did his company own a controlling share in any paper. Said he: "I have never met an editor...
...maintained by Harvard toward associations in intercollegiate sport. Perhaps the commonest interpretation put on this detachment has read into the Harvard athletic policy a disdain of such leagues. "Old high-hat Harvard" is the phrase most often used to describe what is felt to be an independence amounting to conscious self-righteousness...
Kansas City's music boom has burst. The chubby little girl with .the high, bright voice whose sensational opera debut three years ago made the country Kansas City-conscious, decided last week to go back to the farm, to sing no more. Encouraged by the mother who had chaperoned .her career, the sister Florence who had taught her to sing, the telegraph-operating father who had flashed the first news of daughter's triumph from the wings, Marion Talley announced that she was through with being a prima donna. Her statement was as simple and matter of fact...
Contrastingly, Canada's N. C. E. is a shrewd publicist. In 23 Canadian cities and towns are its committees, busy, responsible. No educators may serve on these. Thus is the laity made education-conscious, made to share Canada's educators' responsibility and work...
This first major outbreak of the Forum since its divorce from the Baptist Social Union was very self-conscious over the dangers of being too serious about its program of reform. "We are often too serious" said the editor of the Nation, a journal which has claimed to have a greater popularity among Harvard undergraduates than any other weekly--excepting The Saturday Evening Post. So the Undesirables who invaded the realm of the Puritans roared in revels of laughter as they received the import of Jack and Jill's climb up the ancient hill. It was an important occasion...