Word: sane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Liberal: "Sooner than keep to the paths of sane and careful government, in which the Liberals were ready and willing to support him. the Prime Minister has chosen to appeal to the country. Like Mr. Baldwin, a year ago, he yielded to the hotheads in his Party, who prefer to stake all upon an election rather than forego their cherished nostrum of Socialism in the one case and of Protection in the other...
Dooley went into the Yale game last week as the regular Dartmouth quarterback. In the first minute of play he made a costly fumble, which led to a Yale score. Fumbles are, however, excusable. No sane coach would drop a man from the team for a slip of that sort...
...sane citizen or intelligent voter look calmly at these six decisions of a divided court of 5 to 4 and not discover that by the vote of one judge many acts of Congress have been nullified by a fallible, life tenure Supreme Judge...
...exercise the independence represented by doing one's own thinking, to match the sane mind with the sound body, to maintain a reverent spirit of religion--these were points emphasized by Dr. Hopkins in his counsel to the young men assembled before him. He warned them of the danger of "parrot thinking," the acceptance of plausible but misleading theories, such as often find exponents in any community; and while he spoke to an academic community, his words had application to a greater field. Certainly there have been few seasons in the national experience when the need of clear thinking...
...biggest men in Europe and will exercise such power as would make many a Mussolini or a Primo Rivera turn green with envy. Alone from thousands of financial wizards, Mr. Gilbert has 'been selected as the wizard of them all and his selection is unquestionably the result of sane reasoning...