Word: sane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...From my own experience, I should advise every foreigner to avoid Italy unless necessity takes him there. . . . The attitude toward all foreigners at present is hostile and arrogant. Toward France it is not quite sane. . . . One must see the mobs rushing through the streets shouting: 'Down with France!' to understand the hysteria of feeling...
...American, a believer in democracy, it is not a refreshing spectacle to find that a once sane nation has substituted violence for justice and has no longer the faintest vestige of a free press, and a government which imposes injury and poverty on the smallest official who speaks a breath of criticism against it. ... Conditions are not growing better. My total impression was one of impending disaster. The country cannot continue under such a state of nerves and under such a dictatorship indefinitely. Something must happen-assassinations, wars or another revolution. It is not only that the conditions menace Italy...
...student military training, football, and educational problems in general merely form the external evidence of a healthy interest in the problems of the social community, and more narrowly in the student community. Because no immediate practical results always ensue they are not to be condemned. If they have provoked sane discussion and an exchange of ideas they have been eminently worth while...
...University would like to know the opinions of the students on the food question," stated Dean C. N. Greenough '98 yesterday. "The CRIMSON essay contest affords an excellent means of finding these out. The College will consider the essays carefully, and if any practical, sane plan is proposed, the College will probably act upon...
...religion, economics, science, philosophy, music and a dozen other fields of activity. This same loyalty of his which makes him moderately free spiritually and emotionally of ties binding other people perhaps is partially responsible for the courageous independence so characteristic of Jewish thought. The future then lies in the sane recognition of the marked difference between Jew and Gentile, and the mutual benefits which ultimately arise from it. As Mr. Wise concludes, "For if once it be accepted as a fact that the Jewish group, the Jewish people, even the Jewish problem, is not to disappear...