Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mount Auburn Street, cork helmits were a necessity much as they were in any British tropical outpost, that is, to keep those present from going completely under when their back teeth were floating. Under the new regime, however, it appears that at least the invaluable Bob Lampoon keeps semi-sober and acts in the joint capacity of managing editor and wash-room attendant, and that as a result a more palatable brand of humor is on sale at Felix's the following week...
...most general display of interest on the part of students for some years. Many of the letters received have not seemed to shed any new light on the affairs of English 72 and of the English Department in general, but the two letters printed in an adjacent column are sober enough to warrant consideration...
...biography of Afric blood and thunder which the old man is said to have "dictated" (TIME, June 27). Throughout the week, Mr. Smith wandered like a puzzled Rip Van Winkle through a series of functions at which he, in contrast to most of the literati present, was creditably sober...
...instructed in the art, science or habit of prohibition. It seems that an education law of twenty-five years ago first made provision that prohibition should play a part in the life of every school child, to the obvious and praiseworthy end that he might become an intelligent and sober minded citizen...
...very nature of an educational convention, with its fleeting luncheons and dinners and myriad speeches on everything from the automobile library to the little red schoolhouse, is a denial of sober and detailed consideration of a problem. Likewise doubtful in value are conferences of college and secondary school executives, where partisan speechmaking soon resolves the parley into the polite immobility of a disarmament conference...