Word: sanest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Circular Staircase, which later became The Bat, was a great success, and from that time her progress has been steady. She has never written a failure. That is largely because she respects and knows her tremendous public. Of all our women writers, her attitude toward the war was the sanest, and her Kings, Queens and Pawns is a magnificent piece of reporting. Her work for the Department of Justice was secret, brave and successful. It is characteristic of her that she hates trains, that she arrives from a rail-road journey a nervous wreck; but that she can ride...
...they as valuable as it is claimed? Certainly they have had a distinct influence on modern art. But Clive Bell, one of the sanest of modern critics, says that he intends "to keep his head" about Negro art. He maintains that they show taste and skill, but not profundity of vision, and that they lack originality, duplicating without question the conventions of their predecessors for generation after generation. In other words, the Negro art, which has been too much ignored, is now in danger of being equally overpraised...
...certain elements of our population, the great majority must look forward to it. History has shown too conclusively that agriculture is the foundation of every strong nation. If the United States is to settle the problem of the ever-increasing city with its parasites, this is the sanest method of doing so. To give the farmer power will mean a return of interest in the farm, as well as a less politically governed national policy. No harm has ever yet come from a sensible "back to the farm" movement...
...many schemes, similar to this one, that are being broached are little more than pipe-dreams, for none of them has been actually tried. It remains for a women's college to take the lead by putting into practice the simplest and sanest device that has yet been suggested. Barnard College has adopted a "Special Honors Course", by which according to Dean Gildersleeve, a limited number of unusually able students will be permitted to study in their chosen field and at the same time be exempt from the larger part of the ordinary routine, prescribed courses and other impediments...