Word: sane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when William Crapo Durant, stock market operator and motor manufacturer, sailed for Europe seven weeks ago, he said nothing striking. And yet he is one of the headiest bulls of the present market (which many sane economists believe is at a peak...
...American public formed its impression of college life solely by reading the comic strips and the average humorous magazine, it might have good reason to believe that our universities are places where half-baked young men in alcoholic stupors congregate to indulge in petty vices. But fortunately, most sane individuals are capable of discounting such pictures of the college student, and see in these caricatures nothing more than a grotesque and rather obvious attempt at humor. This is, however, a more sinister type of publicity concerning the undergraduate which is designed to catch the eyes of scandal-loving readers...
Governor Smith gave five sharp and sane reasons for his veto: 1) public authorities can finance bridges at lower cost than private; 2) bridges are public and the public should own them; 3) privately owned toll bridges are as old-fashioned as privately owned toll roads; 4) the particular New York franchises sought were practically perpetual; 5) if private corporations can make money on the construction of toll bridges, the government...
Last week the District Court of Appeals at Lima, Ohio, decided that Killer Remus was sane, ordered him released from the asylum. The majority opinion handed down by Judges Phil M. Crow and Kent W. Hughes said: "We frankly say that if his [Remus's] mental condition was at the time he committed the homicide as it was shown to be at the time of the trial before us, the verdict was a most flagrant and reprehensible outrage of judicial administration which cannot be too strongly condemned...
...Psychiatric literature is full of the case histories of identical twins stricken by the same psychoses at the same time. They have the same hallucinations, hear the same voices, suffer from the same delusions. No single instance has been found of one twin going insane while the other remained sane. Sometimes this has been shown to be the result of association, and separation in the ward has brought about changes in the character of the dementia. Would each have gone mad if the existence of the other had been unknown? There are doctors who believe they would; that having...