Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best newspapers, like the best people, make mistakes. But seldom is any paper so unfortunate as was the exemplary New York Times last week. One morning the Times's sober obituary page carried accounts of two famed men who had died the day before, Fairfax Harrison, onetime president of the Southern Railway, and Engineer Dexter Parshall Cooper, father of Passamaquoddy's tidal-harnessing project. Each was illustrated with a picture. Unfortunately, the purported likeness of Mr. Harrison bore the easily recognizable features of John Jeremiah Pelley, president of the Association of American Railroads, the picture of Mr. Cooper...
Plans for the meet are being formulated by the Track and Field Committee, consisting of Asa S. Bushnell, Princeton, chairman and executive director of the I.C.4-1., Stanley de J. Osborne, Harvard, H. Jamison Swarts, Pennsylvania, Pincus Sober, C.C.N.Y., Vincent W. Farley, Manhattan, and Francis J. Brennan, Columbia...
...news about cancer to which reputable specialists pay attention is not wild announcements of a sure cure for all types of the disease, but sober reports of cancer facts dug up in laboratories and hospitals which may eventually, by long hard work, lead to a cancer cure. Last week cancer researchers in the U. S., working harder than ever because of new organizations and contributions paid attention to some new cancer facts reported from France and England...
While Steichen was thus occupied, a younger generation of photographers had come along who believed that when Steichen turned his back on painting he had not turned far enough. They saw the camera as essentially a documenter of physical reality. They admired Matthew Brady's diamond-clear, sober pictures of the Civil War, Eugene Atget's photographs of Paris in the early 1900s a great deal more than Steichen's highly lit personalities in Vanity Fair. Steichen's love of lighting effects and studio magic (see cut) seemed to them stagy. Among these photographers were Berenice...
...twins, she greeted him three years later as though he had only been out for a walk. But her price was the old Pharaoh empire, his divorce from Octavia. This last move, says Ludwig, marked the point where her emotions began to cloud her statesmanship. It is his sober opinion that she helped Antony's defeat at Actium because she feared that victory would result in his going off with a younger woman...