Word: saneness
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...than the scene in a Greenwich Village backyard where poets, press agents, and actresses talk their way to success among cocktails and tea. This man and woman are not idly and stupidly rebellious, but they are part and parcel of the world in which they live, trying as any sane person must, to find common sense in the current confusion of ideas and the steel clatter of the machine age. They go out into the world at the very hour of the funeral of the girl's mother; after a few years of married life, the girl, freer and less...
Then came Columbia Trust, with cuts of the largest U. S. university's "safe and sane rectangular safety deposit boxes. . . . New boxes will be put up yearly as the number of . students grows." Juxtaposed with the facade of the Columbia Library, was a "detail of a kindred savings bank," markedly similar...
...general examinations might well remain, however, as a minimum standard to which the candidate for a degree must conform and as an inspiration to the constitutionally idle. This is compulsion at a sane and healthy minimum. As an added incentive to original work every candidate for a degree should be required to submit a thesis upon some subject in his field of concentration, for, after all, an examination even of the most improved form places an emphasis on the marshalling rather than the creative faculties of man. The writing of a thesis ought not to prove particularly onerous in consideration...
That a group of sane minded men should sit in solemn conclave, discuss, deliberate, and finally pass a bill that dictates what, or what shall not be used to beautify feminine cheeks, is assuredly the height of Babbittism. The news has just arrived from the Harvard-Boston expedition to Egypt that the princess, who was first thought to be wife of Sneferuw, used green cosmetic. If the walls of the tomb had also contained a solemn royal edict to the effect that no such decoration was to be used by the women of the Nile valley, the explorers would doubtless...
...another part of his speech, the Air Secretary referred to "the greatest air power, our old friend, France; and no sane Englishman or Frenchman now dreams of strained relations between the two countries." In another passage, he continued...