Word: sane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kirkland House's inmates are like their tower, "comfortably sane." Freshmen who want to shine in College activities will probably find K-House frustrating...
...more remarkable to find the College worrying about the problems of students who have decided to enlist. Yet the College thought over these problems and on Monday produced some sound and sane answers. Students who leave for service will get an examless two week breathing period; they will not have to spend those two weeks plugging away at a final. Those who leave after ten weeks of the term will still have a chance to get credit for their courses, with the amount of credit correctly left up to their instructors. There will be refunds on board and lodging payments...
...Hamburg. No one who has observed Acheson under the attacks of his critics and the stresses of his job during the past year can fail to admire his steady, cold-steel nerve. He has held himself aloof from the brawling. His staff know him as calm, sane, considerate. He has generally kept his sense of humor in a turbulent world, sometimes opens a window on a frosty...
...last week, a large part of the usually sane and solid British public had surrendered to the most unblushing piece of pseudo-nursery nonsense since 1939's Three Little Fishies. I Taut I Taw a Puddy-Tat, a baby-talk duet between a nasal, lisping little bird named Tweetie Pie and a gravel-voiced cat named Sylvester (both parts sung by Radio Actor Mel Blanc), had passed the quarter-million mark in record sales, stood second on the British hit parade...
...University of Illinois last week, Dr. Grant Fairbanks was having a fine time with a fiendish apparatus specially designed to turn sane human beings into temporary gibbering idiots. It does the dirty work by the cybernetic trick of tinkering with the "feedback" system that monitors human speech...