Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...self-esteem dented. Lord Chief Justice Goddard had decided against an art dealer who was suing Dodge for $27,200, the uncollected price of a painting. Dodge had claimed that the painting was a bogus Sir Thomas Lawrence, which he never would have bought if he had been sober. Commented the Lord Chief Justice: "Dodge was behaving . . . as what would be described in his own country as a common drunk...
...Cures" & Quacks. Did Freud give up hypnotism too soon? Authors Wolfe and Rosenthal, sure that he did, report hypnotic effects that make Svengali* look like a tyro. They claim that hypnotism has cured numerous cases of psychoneurosis, made childbirth painless and alcoholics sober. They reassure prospective patients by saying that no one can be forced to act against his moral principles while in a trance (e.g., a girl cannot be hypnotically seduced if she does not want to be; if she does, the authors add gravely, "hypnosis is an unnecessarily involved and roundabout route...
Breadwinner. In Cambridge, Mass., a housewife explained why she kept her husband drunk: sober, he made $30 a week; in jail for drunkenness, he made her eligible for $60-a-week welfare...
Hubble's discovery threw top-level science into confused arguments which are still raging. For various reasons (besides "common sense"), the idea of an exploding universe gave sober scientists goose-pimples. But every attempt to reason the theory away raised even more serious problems. Since Hubble had seen so much with the 100-inch telescope (whose range is 500 million light-years), the astronomers simply had to see still farther...
...State Department's "Voice of America" began broadcasting the documents to the world, including Russia. It was clearly propaganda, but propaganda with the virtue of sober truth...