Word: sanely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ultimate hope for the world in "a respected United Nations." But he warned: "Until war is eliminated . . . unpreparedness for it is well-nigh as criminal as war itself . . . No sane man will challenge, under present circumstances, the need for defensive strength...
...Hang me! Hang me if you want," screamed Yvette at this final insult, "but make him stop!" "Shut up," implored her long-suffering father. After that, Yvette cut him dead. At trial's end, Judges Cohn, Speight and Elegant concluded that Yvette was undoubtedly "a psychopathic personality," but sane enough to know what she was doing. They sentenced her to 15 years in the U.S. reformatory at Alderson, W.Va...
...prisoner was ruled sane by the court and sentenced immediately to a prison term of 14 years. He was called into the Old Bailey Criminal Court and almost within a matter of minutes pleaded guilty to the four counts which had been lodged against him in February...
...special quality of "King Lear" which makes it so difficult to stage, is its summoning up of the elemental powers of Nature, and it is King Lear himself-sometimes sane, sometimes mad like his Foot and Tom O' Bedlam, sometimes an old man, sometimes a king above men-who is most closely connected with Nature. Therefore, if the play is to mean anything, it must have a Lear who can speak with Nature, pluck the infinite out of the false ceiling of the Brattle Theatre. William Devlin is this...
With the scale of its season reduced to a sane level, Harvard would be able to compete on a par with Ivy League opponents except for one item: there is no system of job guarantees at Harvard. Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth all offer this much to prospective athletes. Harvard, apparently, wants nothing to do with official job guarantees to its football players. Such a plan involving no more than 50 men would probably hit stonewall resistance--but help for athletes in the form of honest jobs need not depend on favoritism of any sort...