Word: sane
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last month, yet not a single run has been taken. The management seems entirely to forget the purpose of a bicycle club. On two occasions, it must be allowed, attempts were made to have a run, but on the first day it was too hot for a sane man to ride, and on the other it rained. Still there can be no excuse for not having had a run on some one of the many beautiful days we have had. The Bicycle Club supports a president, captain, and sub-captain, and I fail to see why some one of these...
...temperance cause is not what it once was, small and unnoticed. All over the United States and England we have to-day on our side the greatest scholars and thinkers, and men of medical genius. The temperance cause is a right one; its principles are lawful, sensible, sane; and it demands and should receive respectful attention from all who love their fellow men. Very largely it has that attention today...
Daniel Pratt has at length unearthed the corner-stone of modern knowledge. He declared that "the unabridged dictionary is the most sane and valuable book in the world; that it is the key to every problem...
...change, the amendment would never have been adopted. And why did that slight change pacify all opposition? Because it left the tacit understanding - to which some of the officers gave even loud expression - that the "slight" change will have the practical effect of shutting out Liberal Christians. Does any sane man suppose that, before signing the constitution, a new member would search out with a pair of magnifying glasses its "fair" meaning? The constitution does not yet say that Liberal Christians may be admitted, and I assert that it does not yet dare to say so. This it is that...