Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...British Government this was quite unfunny. Especially serious was the violent death-the Japanese claimed it was "suicide"-of one of the arrested suspects, Reuters Correspondent Melville James Cox (TIME, Aug. 5). Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax sent an invitation for a little conversation around to Ambassador Shigemitsu. Sober Viscount Halifax told the Ambassador that unless the ar rested men were immediately freed, Britain's anger would be great...
Flight v. Fun. Present medical fashion regards all alcoholics as neurotics and psychotics who drink to flee from harsh reality, overcome a feeling of inadequacy, or express homosexual tendencies kept under during sober periods. Doctors' great problem, says Director Nolan Dan Carpentier Lewis of New York State Psychiatric Institute, is to uncover the mental disorders which drive men to drink...
Three weeks ago, after the Hitler-panicked stockmarket cooled off (at around 115 on the Dow-Jones Industrials Average), a sober fringe of investors figured that many stocks were priced too low. Their reasoning: that the worse Hitler made things look for democracy in Europe, the more U. S. heavy industry would boom on National Defense spending...
Though his British taste for understatement often hides the gravity of his views, Plewman thus far has not failed to emphasize Nazi strength, Allied weakness. When German columns broke the Allied line in Flanders last month, Plewman wrote with the sober detachment of a historian that there was nothing between Hitler's Army and the Channel to stop their advance...
Whatever then reasons for keeping so still, we are sure that they cannot help feeling sadness at the present current of thought at Harvard. There is little more sober debate in this University than in the nation as a whole. Harvard is not carrying out its duty to society; it is repeating the mistakes of the last...