Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Furthermore the student was ordered not "to goe out of his chamber without coate, gowne or cloake, and everyone, everywhere, shall weare modest and sober habit, without strange ruffianlike or newfangled fashiond, without lavish Dresse or excesse of apparel whatsoever...
...long time. Lord, what speeches! The Student Council presents a worthy resolution but its speaker, upon questioning, says he knows nothing about the business! A pretty blot for the record! One law school professor thrills the audience by his wit and arrogance, but it seems to me, any sober judge would say he made a monkey of himself; and did no more good for the cause than the speaker who opposed the Oath by pleading he was a father of three children, and spilled blood for democracy...
...made by the tutors the following autumn under the existing system not only are carelessly thought out, but add to the general confusion in September of the Sophomore year. If this work were done leisurely in the spring, while the Freshman was getting his first taste of concentration, more sober and appropriate choices would be made...
...that each man is concerned with a subject on which he is either an authority or has ample time to become one. The books just pass hand to hand until all the questions have been taken care of. The result is that all parts of each paper have received sober and competent attention; but, more important, all the papers have received exactly the same treatment...
...excused his London spree by saying that his Jewish mistress Magda Lupescu, whom he left behind in Paris, exerts a "motherly influence" upon the King, and that with this suddenly removed his "boyish and highly susceptible nature" got out of hand. At the Ritz in Paris the King soon sobered. "I do not believe war is imminent," he wisely told correspondents. "In fact, I am confident peace can be maintained. In this respect I have great hopes for the reign of Edward VIII. He is a man endowed with rare equilibrium - rare equilibrium ! My own country, my beloved Rumania, each...