Word: sane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pointing up alumni support as the basis of representative teams, Hall cited Princeton, now fielding the nation's seventh best team, as an example of what can be achieved within the scope of a "sane athletic policy...
...Dear Griselio-If for any reason it should be necessary for you to assume the leadership of the movement in the United States, you will do so without hesitation of any kind. We are leaving to your high sense of patriotism and sane judgment everything regarding this matter. Cordially yours...
Most other colleges held off on the curfew. Certainly a Harvard man is as safe and sane as one from Dartmouth. Boston Traveler, October...
John Patrick has written a successful comedy about a widow who has hidden her $10,000,000 fortune from her avaricious heirs. They do not discover that the money is gone until after they have committed her to a mental institution. She is only too sane and manager to make them look even there ridiculous than her fellow inmates in the search for the money. Mr. Patrick has happily peopled his rest home with fresh and likable people and has avoided the pitfalls of sentiment. There is no suggestion that these search people are better off than their stronger brethren...
While it is probable that there are people who make a cult of dianetics, that fact is irrelevant. The only issue is whether or not it works toward making people more happy and more sane . . . Sane people do not belong to cults . . . We agree that Hubbard makes too many wild generalizations . . . But if dianetics works, what is now hyperbole may become cold fact...