Word: sober
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Sober and chastened. General Wallenius and Colonel Kuussaari were dismissed from the army, sentenced to three years in prison...
...House, as is obvious to anyone who has been observant, is the seat of a small but active cult bent on a crusade toward Balliol. The question is not on the merits of the English college. But a house individualism established through an uncritical limitation, and not through a sober development of its own faculties, is not an individualism that breeds men who think for themselves. The student members have proved themselves very lamb-like in accepting certain superficial actions, not bad though occasionally childish. The zealous minority is coaxing an effortless majority...
...Sober citizens of Chicago sometimes say: "Capone? Yes, it's amazing, isn't it? But you have to hand it to him. Why, he'll probably be mayor of Chicago before he's through. Seriously?and he'd probably be a darn good...
...fact any indication of a bee in the bonnet of an author, are often considered vital in the opinion of modern literary critics. Likewise, enthusiasm and unrestraint are considered the ear marks of powerful literature. Therefore it is with something akin to surprise that one realizes, on finishing this sober volume, its genuine literary excellence...
There is a great deal more to the technique of watching a football game than is popularly supposed. It seems, to most reasonably sober people, that all you have to do is to go to the game and look at the field while the players are engaging in their argument, and the result will be one football game seen. In short watching games is often thought of as something absolute, which you either...