Word: sane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...known as "induced mass," Author Taine has made the basis for a hair-raising yarn of an African primeval god, a subterranean mass of meteoric metal whose emanations corrupt the souls of men and change their bodies; the startling adventures among a tribe of degenerated human beings of three sane Chicago scientists and their pretty secretary. The Iron Star is unusual among thrillers not only in its subject-matter but in the skeptical and light-hearted (at times distressingly lighthearted) style in which all these wonders are set forth...
...alarm with which sane citizens regard the breaking down of even theoretical vestiges of intelligent punishment and permanent reform in American prisons tells the story. Professor Glueck points the moral. A judicious application of his theories to the faltering reformatory system would not be too far amiss...
...last year or so, the sport pages have, as have the undergraduates themselves, taken an increasingly sane attitude about college athletics. Grantland Rice's paragraphs, reprinted in an adjoining column and typical of this happy change, deserve consideration here at Harvard. Moreover, if all of Mr. Rice's facts are true, more than mere consideration is demanded...
...most colleges, afford to do without the income that is a constant excuse for foot ball emphasis. It can continue to refuse an enlarged Stadium to be used as a whole on one afternoon in two years. It can instill in the present college generation, the embryo count, a sane ideal of athletics that will influence strongly public opinion in the future...