Word: sanest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reduced schedules, abolition of scouts, spring practice, high-priced admission tickets, and sectional championships, while encouraging interclass games and coaching by graduates only, the student dailies of Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth voiced their strong condemnation of existing procedure. We believe that the editors of these publications are reflecting the sanest, if not the most vociferous viewpoint of the undergraduate bodies, and we congratulate them for the courage with which they have stopped into a fight destined to engender much heat, and not a few casualties before it is concluded. The Independent...
Subscriber Taggart's letter is the longest ever printed in TIME-and one of the sanest...
...surprising to hear of some representative calling for an appropriation to finance a conference of scofflaws who might find a way of persuading a prominent delegate from Florida to the Democratic National Convention to become their standard bearer in bringing about a repeal of the 18th Amendment. The sanest thing Congress can do before adjournment is to invite a body of allenists to determine how many of its number should transfer so other lastitutions...
...argument of the opposition that Tennyson wrote, "The Charge of the Light Brigade" on a typewriter is exceedingly convincing although another asserts that nothing but asprin advertisements or "vers libre" is possible. The sanest opinion seems to be that while in some cases; the noise is disturbing the clearness with which the matter is set forth promotes "terseness, clearness and structural lucidity." And it is certainly true that in case where the writer's chirography is immoderately bad, the legibility of type adds to the case of revision...
...truth, its ideals, its traditions, its motto are a religion. God is love. The kindly spirit of Harvard men is not usually seen in other colleges. Certainly not in provincial state universities. I think Harvard is the most religious student body in America. By religious I mean with the sanest understanding of Truth...