Word: saneness
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...survey made in these lectures is a guide to work and contemplation. It aims toward giving perspective. It gives a sane and modest view of man's place in the scheme. But in addition to giving a comprehensive view, the classification serves to interpret some phases of the sidereal universe in a clearer form than before...
...death of M. Georges Clemenceau marks the transition of international politics from the hysterical period of the Great War to the more balanced and sane present. The "Tiger" with his energetic and forceful personality stood for the impetus which directed France through the most disorganizing experience in her history. Whether or not he was always aware of ethics is doubtful, but he did attain...
Died. Mrs. Julia Barnett Rice, 69, founder of the Anti-Noise Society of America, onetime President of the Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noises, originator of "Safe & Sane" Independence Days; at Deal, N. J. Annoyed by toots of Hudson River tugs, she sound-proofed her home on Riverside Drive, Manhattan...
...dummy of the slaughtered man, staring, pallid. Madness brought an interval. When a juryman, brooding long on hell and damnation, broke down and was carried yelling to a padded cell, Judge Victor Maurice Barnhill declared a mistrial. Mildness seemed the new motive. When the Aderholt trial reopened with 12 sane jurors, the prosecution had lessened the indictments to second-degree, had quashed all charges against nine defendants. Liberals and conservatives again pointed a proud finger to Judge Barnhill, unruffled, scrupulously ruling. But the approving fingers soon wavered. When Judge Barnhill, following a North Carolina statute of 1777, ordered a witness...
That there are relatively few fatal injuries in collegiate ranks is obvious That the boy who died might have been the victim of a capricious fate is possible. But it is hardly sane to assume that a suicide, caused by football worries, accompanied, too, by a note wishing the school team well, can be the result of anything but an overstress on the part of the authorities, and a resulting unbalanced sense of relative values on the part of the student...