Word: sane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dummy of the slaughtered man, staring, pallid. Madness brought an interval. When a juryman, brooding long on hell and damnation, broke down and was carried yelling to a padded cell, Judge Victor Maurice Barnhill declared a mistrial. Mildness seemed the new motive. When the Aderholt trial reopened with 12 sane jurors, the prosecution had lessened the indictments to second-degree, had quashed all charges against nine defendants. Liberals and conservatives again pointed a proud finger to Judge Barnhill, unruffled, scrupulously ruling. But the approving fingers soon wavered. When Judge Barnhill, following a North Carolina statute of 1777, ordered a witness...
That there are relatively few fatal injuries in collegiate ranks is obvious That the boy who died might have been the victim of a capricious fate is possible. But it is hardly sane to assume that a suicide, caused by football worries, accompanied, too, by a note wishing the school team well, can be the result of anything but an overstress on the part of the authorities, and a resulting unbalanced sense of relative values on the part of the student...
Genius. "Safe & Sane may also mean commonplace, unenterprising," said New York's Joseph Jastrow, speaking again. Few who lead significant lives are hopelessly sane. A genius is a deviate from the normal. In deviation there is hope, strength, unique value. Much of the most important work of the world has been done by men who have paid the penalty for their achievements in terms of their handicaps. Men are more susceptible to neurasthenia than women, women more prone to hysteria...
Subscriber Kreutzweiser's suggestion, sane, is herewith adopted...
...Four. By now, of course, negotiations had reached total deadlock. The Latin delegations?maneuvered by M. Briand who himself spoke seldom?had dodged the Snowden attack by treating it as bluff. Such a wild man, they indicated, could not be speaking for British Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, that sane and steady Scot. The full staggering power of Chancellor Snowden's punches was not felt until Mr. MacDonald officially declared: "In view of the statements so widely read on the Continent that Mr. Snowden is bluffing, I want to make it perfectly clear that the claims he is making that...