Word: sane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dumping regardless of the fact that it but transfers the hardships of crop fluctuation to foreign farmers. But despite the carelessness and heterogeneity of the agitation, several factors are obvious: crop fluctuation brings social distress; agrarian society is rigid and comparatively helpless; if any portion of the country requires sane governmental assistance, it is the farming portion...
...learning--for a few years at least--what standards have and should still exist by which he is to measure the worth of his own work. He is getting ideas. And most of this profusion of mediocrity in contemporary art is due primarily to a lack of sane and sufficient standards, of sane and sufficient thinking. As an undergraduate he is free to learn these standards, to absorb that sanity. So his college cramp may not--in the end--be more than the restraint necessary for ht realization of a creative power, sufficient to overcome the mediocrity or contemporary...
...wants Chicago to become a city of inane and listless dilettantes in living. But no one can believe that one football game by service elevens will prevent that surely improbable misfortune. The more sane thinking done both there and here the fewer displays of peace profiteers or war worshippers will be necessary. And until the advent of that sane thinking the displays should at least be unheralded...
...masses and men of this continent are to the eyes of a sane and capable doctor of medicine puerile in their thinking, infantile in their action. But surely the great masses of any nation at any time could be considered childish from the angle of an individual maturity. Collections of mature minds often form a social group of puerile function. And there are yet in this country occasional vigorous and mature minds, even if the social group does appear ridiculous...
...Loucheur vanished, his votes remained with Briand, It might now be possible to slip these votes as ready political coin into the pocket of a more popular financier. There were those who said last week that the astute Briand winked as he summoned his old friend, the "safe and sane," self-made Senator Paul Doumer, to be his Finance Minister...