Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...think, had any idea that what we were doing was only an ephemeral experiment. The act of faith in founding the school was being transformed into permanence. We knew that in reality the business world had summoned the school into being, and as we worked we were conscious of an increasingly favorable environment. The old training for business, formal or informal apprenticeship, was breaking down; the rule of thumb was giving way to instruments of precision and the intelligence to handle them. The majority of college graduates, even without any specialized education, were seeking business careers, where only a generation...
...however, not until President Lowell started his administration in 1909 that Harvard became "Charles River Conscious." Although President Lowell will be remembered by future generations primarily for his changes in the academic system, his vision in dealing with the architectural development of Harvard will be rated a close second...
...then the "United States of Europe." P. is for Persia and alphabetically it was P.'s turn to preside. Nervously Persia's swart Prince Mirza Mohammed Ali Khan Foroughi assumed the chair. Perspiring, he constantly wiped his brow with a bright pink silk handkerchief. Then diffidently, as though conscious that the words of a Prince were as chaff to these commoners, he sped the Assembly's, proceedings with a dash of Orient philosophy thus...
...interest" for out-of-towners. It is the only official museum of art in New York City. Last week art circles were stirred by news that Manhattan is to have a U. S. Luxembourg.* Spurred by the fact that in Cleveland, The Hague, Rotterdam, Worcester and all great art-conscious cities except New York, there are museums which exhibit contemporary art, a committee of seven art collectors and patrons planned and announced a Museum of Modern Art, to open in October with an exhibition of the sires of today's "modern" art: Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Renoir. The committee...
Once a prime whaling centre, New England is now whale-conscious only when a stray carcass is washed ashore to decompose into a smelly blubbery mass. From San Pedro, Cal., a few independent whalers operate on a small scale. But except for some whaling boats that make South America their headquarters and a few English companies, Norway has a practical monopoly on the industry...