Word: sanely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stated before. While she will make no provision to send a delegate to the celebration, she will permit a member of her faculty, who may happen to be travelling in Europe at the time, to represent her in the capacity of official delegate. This stand is both logical and sane. Germany realizes that Harvard cannot enter into cordial relations with any educational institution controlled and oppressed by a government whose treatment of its educators has become notorious throughout the civilized world. At the same time the University will not offend an institution which, despite its Nazi taint, is justly celebrated...
...paintings are inextricably mixed, but Mrs. Logan says that the commonsensical U. S. public will have no trouble picking the sane art from the "faddist...
...late, an outstanding Conning Tower contributor has been Adwriter Al Graham ("Ye Oulde Al Graham"), who wrote for F. P. A. a burlesque weekly newsreel continuity. Mr. Adams' own verses have filled several books. His prose has been divided between sane and salty comment on the current U. S. scene, good-humored correction of misquotations and bad grammar by other journalists, and the weekly "Diary of Our Own Samuel Pepys," in which most of Manhattan's artists & writers sooner or later received mention. Addicted to punning, F. P. A. credits Dramatist George S. Kaufman with...
...Arlington Williams of Cannon Mills (towels) who said his company once "seriously considered discontinuing our efforts to sell to department stores." Taking a dig at Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. and its perennial price wars with Bloomingdale's and Gimbel's, Towelman Williams declared: "No sane manufacturer likes to have his merchandise used as a football and crowd-getter. Nor does he enjoy the disorderly competition brought about by two and sometimes more stores in a town starting a feud and vowing they will not be undersold. It always seemed to me that...
...Commission complained, the undistributed profits tax was destroying I. C. C.'s safe & sane railroad finance policy by discouraging all U. S. corporations from laying surplus profits by for a rainy day or using them to get out of debt...