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Word: sanely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very pleasant," said French Finance Minister René Mayer one day last week, "to cooperate with a man who has as sane ideas as Sir Stafford Cripps." Nonetheless, he was not taking all Sir Stafford's ideas. This week, despite Crippsian objections, the French devalued the franc in a way that, Cripps thought, threatened the pound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Pleasant & Unpleasant | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

Must a poet be mad? Doctors, many of whom are sane, doubt it. The British Royal College of Physicians, in a clinically solemn discussion of the creative mind, recently came to the conclusion that writers are not as crazy as they like to think they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: As Sane as Anybody | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...with thick legs, he fell on the floor and writhed with an imagined attack of the disease. On another occasion he had a hallucination that he had seen a baby rise from the sea and clap its hands at him. But Nicolson insists that Shelley was "on the whole" sane: "After all, even Goethe (who assuredly was a man of the most Olympian calm and sanity) once met himself riding along a road on horseback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: As Sane as Anybody | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...nominate Yehudi Menuhin. This artist has shown by his words and actions such a sane outlook upon the affairs of this world that he puts to shame the managers of our international life. He teaches a lesson that . . . tolerance is a two-way street-that the hand of friendship must be stretched out to all men of good will-and not only to those that you particularly approve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 24, 1947 | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...Distribute sane literature. In the land of Rabelais, Montaigne, Voltaire, Moliere, Anatole France, Rimbaud, Eluard and Louis Aragon, there can be no support for a propaganda tending to lower the spiritual values...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDEOLOGIES: Aux Barricades! | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

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