Word: saneness
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...didn't say anything. The way I figured was that it was his boat and he was over twenty-one. Besides, if he lost everybody would get out of Newport tonight while they were still partially sane...
Antiquity of Man. No sane anthropologist asserts that man descended from an ape or monkey. The family tree of primates charted by Sir Arthur Keith shows New World monkeys branching off a common stem in the Eocene Age (2,000,000 years ago), Old World monkeys diverging later in the same period. In the Oligocene Age (1,200,000 years ago), the great upright primates reached a fork. One branch ends up with the gorillas, orangs and chimpanzees of today. The other continues steadily toward Homo sapiens...
...collar class began to appear. Under the Mayor's auspices, a "citizens' committee" of 500 was organized to check famine and disorder. The newspapers, frightened by bomb threats, took an unequivocal stand. "The radicals," editorialized the Chronicle, "have seized control by intimidation. What they want is revolution. . . . Are the sane, sober workingmen of San Francisco to permit these Communists to use them for their purpose of wreckage, a wreckage bound to carry the union down with...
...Kurt Schmitt until he became an Economics Tsar. Old-school Economist Dr. Schmitt is secretive about whether he is yet a Nazi. He is famed for the quiet way in which for months he has shielded Jewish businessmen whenever possible and generally run the Ministry of Economics on sane, rational lines which made him hated by Captain Ernst Roehm and other "Nazi Bolsheviks" now safely massacred. Last week the Cabinet decreed, effective for the next three months: "The Minister of Economics is empowered to take all measures ... to improve German business or to prevent damage to the nation...
...cattle. Unitarians of the American Unitarian Association and allied societies met in the centre of their stronghold-Boston. From Rev. Maxwell Savage of Worcester, Mass. they heard that their sect, "made up of separatist ministers and isolationist churches," is too individualistic. From Professor Reinhold Niebuhr they heard praise of sane optimism which comes after despair and suffering. From Rev. John Haynes Holmes they heard that contemporary civilization is collapsing, although it has produced four great men: Einstein, Freud, Lenin, Gandhi. Northern Baptists numbering 3,500 met in Rochester, N. Y. As their new president they elected Dr. Avery Albert Shaw...