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Word: sane (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arguments: "Should he get another [term], he will have been President two years longer than any other man in our history. The limitation that Washington and Jefferson regarded as wise and to which Grant and Roosevelt yielded as final is to be broken for Coolidge? It does not seem sane. Second, the agrarian revolt in the great Republican States in the West is real. . . . "A third argument is that there is in the field a Presidential candidate inherently stronger than Mr. Coolidge-Frank 0. Lowden. It may be that his age-66-or his health, or some other reason will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Talk | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

...difficult to distinguish them from those which serve a definite purpose. Particularly for Harvard men, instinctively opposed to being organized into anything, it is worth while to examine the second annual congress of the National Student Federation of America, just closed at Ann Arbor, for promises of a forceful, sane, and necessary existence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT FEDERATION | 12/7/1926 | See Source »

...qualities are characteristic of Moliere as a playwright, his humor and his common sense. In fact he was essentially a bourgeois humorist writing comedies more or less classical in form but full of a sane and vivacious wit not found in appreciable amounts in his two great contemporaries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 12/1/1926 | See Source »

...were discourteous enough to stare, Mme. Tiv raised her lorgnette and swept them with a reproving glance. Soon a policeman entered, stripped off his overcoat, clothed Mme. Tiv in it and escorted her protesting to a police station. There she was examined by an alienist who pronounced her entirely sane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISCELLANY: Honest Feit | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

...editorials printed below need little comment. Here one can see a definite desire on the part of those often maligned gentlemen, "the press", to give their public sane opinions of certain phases of college life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HELPFUL PRESS | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

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