Word: saneness
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...wants Chicago to become a city of inane and listless dilettantes in living. But no one can believe that one football game by service elevens will prevent that surely improbable misfortune. The more sane thinking done both there and here the fewer displays of peace profiteers or war worshippers will be necessary. And until the advent of that sane thinking the displays should at least be unheralded...
...masses and men of this continent are to the eyes of a sane and capable doctor of medicine puerile in their thinking, infantile in their action. But surely the great masses of any nation at any time could be considered childish from the angle of an individual maturity. Collections of mature minds often form a social group of puerile function. And there are yet in this country occasional vigorous and mature minds, even if the social group does appear ridiculous...
...Loucheur vanished, his votes remained with Briand, It might now be possible to slip these votes as ready political coin into the pocket of a more popular financier. There were those who said last week that the astute Briand winked as he summoned his old friend, the "safe and sane," self-made Senator Paul Doumer, to be his Finance Minister...
...whole renaissance of amateur theatricals on a dignified, sane scale owes its origin to George Pierce Baker and to the universities throughout the country which have followed in Harvard's footsteps. Today state legislatures are in favor of the theatre movement in their universities and have even endowed creative dramatic schools where an M.A. in Drama is equal to an M.A. in any other field. This type of thing is vastly stimulating as well as hopeful and interesting...
...whole creed and one which has had no little effect on human history is based on the value of each human life. So there are those who doubt the ultimate truth of this verdict. The courts of law at best deal rather inadequately with those criminals who are obviously sane. But when such a case as this boy's who has always been the wandering, misunderstanding victim of a cerebral insufficiency comes before the bar of justice, then the limitations of human law stand fully revealed...