Word: consciousness
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...little heed. Mr. Giannini, 60 and retired, is no longer official spokesman for Transamerica, having been succeeded a year ago by astute Elisha Walker of New York. And while it is true that there has been a large professional short interest in Transamerica stock, Wall Street has not been conscious of any great golden California bear in its menagerie. Embarrassing as it might have been for Transamerica's active management, the Giannini outburst - made be neath Florida's sun, not California's - was soon discounted as a merely characteristically florid sales talk by the ageing...
...feet, has since penned some interesting observations of her former master. Wells's attitude to his profession is hardboiled, so sensible you wonder if he can really mean it. Says he: "I have never taken any great pains about writing. I am outside the hierarchy of conscious and deliberate writers altogether. . . . Sir J. C. Squire doubts if I shall 'live' and I cannot say how cordially and unreservedly I agree...
...social uppercuts through his habitant in Dunster House. Members of the house will admit that this is a characteristic not lacking in certain other members. Those who are more self critical will admit that it is present to a small degree in themselves. There has been no conscious attempt from within, either by the students at large or by a minority, to force others to abide by the same standards. The situation is anything but serious. And yet, subtle distinctions on not altogether creditable lines are already perceived in the two Houses...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since Harry Cowles forsook the Harvard Club of Boston and went to Cambridge, William J. Bingham has had difficulty in providing enough courts; and now M. I. T., under the direction of "Jack" Summers, sometime professional at the Union Boat Club, has become squash-conscious. At B. C., B. U. and other places, the development will be the same when the youngsters realize what they are missing...
...Harvard band has to pay for its own dress and consequently is very definitely limited; but even if some trumpet-conscious Maecenas gave from what he had left after the Stock Market crash to buy gilded epaulettes and Cossack helmets for the bandplayers, it would be unfortunate if the musicians succumbed to the glamor and the tinsel...