Word: sane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...number of children who have been injured and killed by automobiles is deplorable," said President Coolidge, contributing his voice to a crusade by Washington newspapers for "sane" driving in the Capital. The American Road Builders Association last week reported that automobiles killed 26,618 persons in 1927; maimed...
Anyone who has interested himself in a sane appraisal of the results of the Reading Period will discover little that is new in the report with the possible exception of the authoritative statistics. Almost too much has been said and written about the success of the experiment in connection with the various Departments, the Faculty, the Library, the extra-curriculum activities, and last but not least, the upperclassmen. The main thing proved by Dean Hanford's article is the fact that the Reading Period has definitely established itself, that not only is there an improvement in the matter of satisfactory...
...book to show that all the world is Christ and is suffering on the Cross, to the hotel proprietor's wife who, after a life of scrubbed floors and emptied cuspidors, is soother in the arms of death by the kisses of an understanding doctor. The book is sane and almost completely damnatory, but one is left with the thought that, after all, Sherwood Anderson is hopelessly and rather endearingly American...
...name is Heinrich Langkopf. His demeanor is upright and engaging though his eyes are haggard. He is 54 and has now been certified by Berlin police physicians as "entirely sane." Last week, he convinced a large section of German public opinion that there are circumstances in which a private citizen is justified in enforcing his claims upon the State by means of a bomb...
...impression thus far obtained is no doubt that the Shubert is no place for a sane man. Far be it from this reviewer to be so dogmatic as that. There are undoubtedly those who will think "Countess Maritza" is just great, but to the intelligent part of the population, that part at any rate which has been to an operetta, say, just once before, let these words be a warning