Word: sane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seventy-year-old Walter Damrosch, whom a New York Times editorial called "Ariel" fortnight ago when he began again to waft and explain safe & sane music over the air to 6,000,000 children, fumed: "To force these [Stokowski's] experiments on helpless children is criminal. Should cubism have been used to preach the glories of painting to our young people...
...promises that each party has made. Republicans cause the world to shudder when they talk of continuing the practice of high tariff walls, and both parties have come out flat-footed against the cancellation of war debts. The two major parties have refused to tackle the situation from a sane economic standpoint. The strained international situation cannot be alleviated until the questions of trade and war debts are met with squarely by a conference led by the United States...
...seasons last week when simultaneously in Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Detroit four batons began cutting the air. Elderly, thickset Frederick Stock held the stick for Chicago, stalwart, British Eugene Goossens for Cincinnati, brisk Nikolai Sokoloff for Cleveland, quiet, slow-moving Ossip Gabrilowitsch for Detroit. The Midwestern conductors chose safe & sane courses last week, free from hazardous, modernistic hurdles...
...necessary for the organization to place the new charges where they would reap the most financial benefit with the least harm to undergraduate interest in athletics. Of all its facilities, the new gymnasium is probably the most expensive, yet worthwhile,--from the student's point of view. Surely no sane man will begrudge this little extra charge which gives him so much benefit...
...ministers and economists assembled at Santiago's Presidential Palace to watch Provisional President Carlos Davila sign something. The world learned only last week what it was that he signed: Chile's long discussed Emergency Plan by which the Davila Government means to embark on a program of "sane" state Socialism. Nothing could insult President Davila more than to call the plan hastily conceived. An editor who dubbed it "Chile's Five-Minute Plan" was promptly flung into jail last week...