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Word: sane (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Mayor Smith & henchmen held a rally. Stated Mayor Smith: "I am Wet and do not believe any sane or sensible person believes the Prohibition Law can be enforced in great cities like Detroit, Chicago and New York. . . . The whole thing is the rankest sort of a joke. . . . The rottenest hypocrisy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: In Detroit | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...draw the line between that which is collegiate in the sense of College Human and Judge Jr., and that which is only the irrepressibility of youth is very difficult. The danger of being too sober and too sane is evenly matched by the danger of being inane and hysterical. The distinction between the decent and the indecent, however, is much easier and requires no leaf critical genius. There are actions and trivolities which are inexcusable even when done in the name of boyish press and of good clean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOPHOMORIC PORNOGRAPHY | 10/20/1927 | See Source »

...promised Temple to Sane Eating to be erected on the former church site at the corner of Mt. Auburn and Holyoke streets has not materialized, and it appears that the "cafeteria" menace will go unchecked as ever for at least another year. Nor is this failure of the authorities to provide a new Dining Hall much their fault. Undergraduates simply do not seem to wish to return to the club table system which existed in Memorial Hall for fifty years, and to which President Lowell thinks they will return. But 180 men were willing to commit themselves to club tables...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN UNION, STRENGTH | 9/28/1927 | See Source »

Post-Versailles. Woodrow Wilson remains the hero of the War's aftermath, sane among a confusion of tongues, a maligned solitary. .... Franco-German friendship needs patience, faith. Goethe believed it possible. So may we believe.?Count Carlo Sforza, one-time (1920) Foreign Minister of Italy, later (1922) Italian Ambassador to Paris, in rehearsing post-War diplomacy in Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rollins Boom | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

Hangars, houses and steeples cance." "quietly The dropped into Super-Reporter insignifigance "above the foam of thickening clouds ... in the boiling fog which lay between us and the civil war . . . through the strange sky, in sane with sunset," to Bratislava. There, "everything was mad." The Super-Reporter's workaday comrades miraculously procured auto dark." mobiles in "that madness in the dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Super-Reporter | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

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