Word: sanely
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...asked if he advocated this policy of non-interference for the sake of the American soldiers in Russia or for the sake of the Russians, Professor Frankfurter answered: "For the sake of the Russian people. The only way that they can win their way back to a sane and normal condition is by being freed from the influence of all external forces...
...heart alone at the expense of the head and common sense. Fanatics are obsessed with emotions and visions. They do not think straight--often they do not think honestly. Radical reformers are too often filled with so many emotions as altogether to lose sight of the safe and sane. The difference between a genius and a fanatic is the difference between emotion tempered with reason and emotion without the calm which comes from a true education and the proper use of the brain. The world is troubled with an abnormal education of the heart and too little education...
Most conspicuous of all the defects in American journalism has been the lack of a good sane weekly journal of politics and general discussion. The "Nation" and the "New Republic" in turn threatened to fill the gap, wavered, and finally degenerated into radical slander out of which it is now difficult to discover any real constructive criticism...
...Victory Liberty Loan Campaign in the College has gone "over the top". Gratifying as the word's sound, every sane undergraduate knew all along that sooner or later in the campaign they would be safely translated into fact. The chief question has been from the first not one of victory or defeat, but of the extent and character of the victory...
...Prussian military system was ever extended to curtail the freedom enjoyed in the German universities." In their circular letter the Union Against Militarism adds this even more oratorical climax: "It is to be hoped that in their effort to out-Prussia Prussia, American preparedness agitators will be balked by sane and sound American public opinion...