Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should have been a sober impressive moment when the first constitutionally elected Cortes since the Second Republic assembled in Madrid last week and took their seats in the Congreso de los Diputados. But nobody had time to pay any attention to them for all hell was breaking loose in Madrid, Badajoz, Valencia, Murcia, Granada, Teruel and the north...
...nourishing a grudge as the result of disappointed ambitions. Mr. Smith is permitting his resentment against the Administration to run away with his judgment. He is apparently under the illusion that the coining of sarcastic phrases and the hurling of epithets will be misunderstood by sober-minded citizens for sound reasoning. The Civil Works Administration was a logical development of the public works program. It was designed to take up the slack in employment that the Public Works Administration could not hope to reach...
...directly on a matter of this sort; for in the past it has been the custom to hand over such rulings tacitly to underlings, to have them unobtrusively enforced, to make them "generally understood." But the prohibition itself is in the best of University Hall form. It is conservative, sober, and unexplained. To obviate confusion, the President has ruled that no undergraduate may bring liquor into the dining halls. That is all, and for officialdom, that is enough...
...United States with South America has declined 82 per cent, whilst the total foreign trade went down only 69 per cent. This starting decrease is due in part to a not unjustified distrust of this country as the "Colossus of the North," but it can also be attributed to sober economic causes. Constantly rising tariff walls, some necessary for the protection of United States industry and some purely arbitrary, have served to shunt an unwonted amount of Latin American commerce into European ports. The present difficulty of getting foreign monetary exchange, due to the instability of the dollar...
...British Navy, has been in commission long enough for the high command of most of the world's navies to be well aware of her secrets. She was being refitted last week for service to China. What Critic Bywater saw and described for NANA would make sober reading for Japanese jingoes: "Imagine a section of a subway, complete with a double set of rails well over 100 yards long, and lacking only the platforms, advertisements and escalators, and you have a fairly accurate picture of the Adventure's mine deck. ''This unique railway is served...