Word: sane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general tone of your correspondence from Japan is hatefully cynical-and the effect is to make the Japanese seem to be a jumpy, excited, silly people, instead of being the sane, fine, courteous, peace-loving people they really...
...think of being awakened at seven?" "Seven? seven?" said he. "I'm not awakened at seven." At this point the doubt entered my mind. Had I been dreaming? I resolved to count the strokes the next morning. There were one hundred and thirty-nine, gentlemen enough to last any sane, decent church bell almost two days. Yours for a New Deal. H. J. Shirley...
...about some form of work, such as waiting on table, in the morning, the bell rings everlastingly too late to arouse; however, if one desires to snooze until the time sane people should get up, it is irritatingly too early...
...freedom of the Society of Fellows with the organization of a Rollins College. It will undoubtedly remain an idle tutor's dream, but the reforms which might be still injected into the records office and board-rooms of University Hall, can be read between the lines of this sane article. Surely there will come a time when men will leave Harvard knowing more than their grades on 1b miscellaneous examinations, and when the "Regulations Pertaining to College Studies" will be an extinct item prized by book-collectors...
...destiny, Marshal Muto sat in Changchun, subsisting on his Spartan diet of rice, rice, rice, while his sub-commanders conquered the Chinese province of Jehol, added it to Manchukuo (TIME, March 13). Like Marshal Muto his successor General Hishikari is con sidered not a military genius but a safe & sane commander able to guide the exuberance of junior officers and to build up Manchukuo as a state...