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Word: sanest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yale's President James Rowland Angell believes he has the sanest group of students in the world. That is because Yale was the first university to hire a staff psychiatrist. When a Yale man shows abnormality President Angell sends him to that psychiatrist, at present Dr. Clements Collard Fry. If Dr. Fry cannot straighten the student out, the boy is expelled. Only this month Yale dismissed two men, one a mental case, the other a sensual one. So President Angell boasted at the 20th anniversary dinner of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene in Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Mental Hygiene | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...tangible efficiency and directness of perpose. A thoroughly universal education in economics is essential to alleviate the ignorance of the interrelation of sovereignty, property, power, and conflict which Mr. Hawtrey and Norman Angell suggest as basic causes of war. A general understanding of economics appears to be the simplest, sanest, and most significant educational advocacy among the recent flood of innovations and proposed experiments. With it will come the ideal of having the world think of economic ends in terms, not of individual power, but of international welfare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ECONOMIC WAR PREVENTION | 3/1/1929 | See Source »

...Science Killed the Navies." So said Dr. Charles Edward Kenneth Mees, research director of the Eastman (Kodak) Laboratories of Rochester, N. Y. "A modern navy is a burden too heavy to be borne. . . . the advance of science will make it impossible tomorrow. One of the sanest of small nations? Denmark?already has decided to give up the idea that it can defend itself and ... is ... therefore, reasonably safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Detroit | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

...would place greater emphasis on the outstanding athlete and corresponding less on the principles of athletics for all and for the sake of the sport which are essential positive elements in any reconstruction program. The other points are by no means novel but on the whole they represent the sanest portion of the reform opinion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOLASTIC BIG THREE | 12/1/1926 | See Source »

This was wisely said Starting with Anacroon literature is rich in expressions of this Epicurean philosophy Carulus and Omar are exponents of its true value pointing out that the path of pleasure is the sanest and easiest course to follow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 11/20/1926 | See Source »

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