Word: sanely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refrains from buying the Boston American to avoid such biased and stupid criticisms but it would seem that the spirits of Hearst and the Liberty League had entered even the august walls of Harvard and had prostituted the heretofore sane and unprejudiced editorial policy of the Crimson to their purposes...
...municipal Government of London has passed into the control of Socialists led by Herbert Morrison. Since these Socialists are as British in their way as Conservative Stanley Baldwin they see no reason why at the same meeting there should not be both playing of God sane the King! and singing of Arise, ye prisoners of starvation...
...situation. The roots of the spoils system are strong and firm. In these days of Curley and Roosevelt, the wilderness has won back much of the hard-fought ground gained by the first hardy pioneers, as recent reports of Civil Service League amply affirm. There are even some supposedly sane-minded observers who believe that the wilderness should be preserved for its original denizens, unscrupulous politicians, in order, we hear, to preserve the party system...
Handsome Lance Corporal Arthur Charles Mortimer, an outstanding misogynist of the British Army who especially hated female cyclists, was held to be sane by a court in Winchester last week, sentenced to be hanged. In the circumstances Mrs. Violet Van der Elst, wealthy and eccentric British widow who usually protests in person every hanging in the United Kingdom (TIME, April 15), was expected to skip that of Mortimer...
...knows what he is about,' and 'a Latin education, far from alienating us from our own world teaches us to discern the amiable traits in it, and the genuine achievements; helping us, amid so many distracting problems, to preserve a certain balance and dignity of mind, together with a sane confidence in the future.' Insofar as American education strives towards those ideals, the role of the Latin School becomes important in the cultural history of the nation, and the importance of that role has never been greater than at present, even though all the great names in the school...