Word: saneness
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...knows perhaps in the dark ages of the world some highly civilized people incorporated cancer--perhaps it threw an enzyme of courage into our blood stream, perhaps we would be more sane now if this mistake had not been made...
...after his first charges Dr. Altman began to back down. He had not meant, he said, that the 1,500 were actually in sane. And 1,500 was only an estimate. All he had was a list of some 700 teachers who had been referred to him as unbalanced during the past ten years. He did not know how many of them were still in the system, or how many were really unbalanced. In a formal report to the Board of Education he declared that there were "no teachers in the system who are 'insane' in the sense...
Thus far, Mr. Bingham and his henchmen have pursued a very sane policy. The informal nature of the practice, its limitation to those who would not otherwise be taking part in spring athletics, and the voluntary basis of attendance, make it possible to reconcile it with the oft-proclaimed policy of "Athletics for All" on other grounds than the coldly material one of dollars and cents. There are indications, however, that it may develop into work rather than sport, into requirement rather than opportunity. A natural desire to balance future H.A.A. budgets by producing winning teams that will increase gate...
...their fundamental assumptions and in their scale of values, the religious content of the one and the institutional weight of the other puts them at cross purposes. Both movements have been quick to follow the line of least resistance, but only in their agreement can a sane solution of our problems have the chance of survival...
...Pinchot's pained surprise. The Blue Eagle is an eagle without talons, whether or not there be compliance boards in every hamlet in the republic. The Blue Eagle forfeited its hopes for even a temporary success when it backed down on collective bargaining, which is the only sane path to industrial democracy. It did not back down because the President was losing courage, or because the great interests had an undue influence on the formation of his policy. It backed down because it was making pretensions to something which it did not have, and something which, if it had been...