Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time for the President to perceive that law enforcement must be accompanied by active effort in behalf of the principle behind the law. It was likewise time for sober Southerners to realize the enormity of the school-closing acts...
...experiment has hardly begun, but as each Department initiates its reforms one will soon be able to evaluate in a more sober maner the program which marks the start of a new wave of educational reform at Harvard. On this score, two factors--one unfortunate, one heartening--emerge as serious facets of the new look of Harvard education...
Matched with the great thoroughbreds of the past, sober, hard-working Round Table seems as ordinary as a stable pony. His finishing sprint cannot equal Citation's. His reddish brown coat is run-of-the-paddock compared to the lustrous grey of Native Dancer. He sometimes even has trouble getting out of the starting gate. All Round Table can do as an unobstrusive personality of the tracks is win horse races. This season the industrious four-year-old colt owned by Oklahoma Millionaire Travis Mitchell Kerr is an odds-on favorite to win the most gilded title in racing...
Last week, in a calm, sober study, Roy L. Reierson, vice president and chief economist of Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co., concluded that the bearish worries had far outrun the possibilities. "There is some feeling that the American economy may, within the next few years, be engulfed by a speculative, inflationary burst involving a flight out of dollars and money assets and into tangible property, gold or equities. The odds do not seem to favor such a prospect at this time...
...doted on physical and mental "setting-up" exercises, excluding from his mind any "idea or discovery of science" that might shake his personal conception of life ("His index was as rigorous as that of the Catholic Church"). In his sober and industrious periods, the mere thought of drink terrified him, and he would clutch Agnes, crying: "I have found my work, my peace, my joy . . . ! I will not say to you, my love, as a poet once said, that I will pluck the stars of heaven to hang them in your hair-I say to you there are no stars...