Word: soberness
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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...
...this because of the terrible German "threat"! Mr. Conant stated flatly that he did not think this country could live at peace with a victorious Germany. Sober analysis throws much doubt upon this statement. First, the Allies themselves tell us that Germany is throwing everything she has into this war. If so, she will have little left for the enormous task of invading this hemisphere. If Germany wins, it is only human nature that the people will be tired of war and anxious to enjoy prosperity and peace. The country will, moreover, have a tremendous job of consolidation...
This has been a beautiful May day in Paris, with the horse-chestnut trees in blossom, and a rosy sunset over the Tuileries. Tragic splendor. Paris in magnificent. No nervousness, no panic. Paris waits in sad eagerness,. dramatic but sober expectation. The nation knows the danger, but knows, too, that it is fighting its won battle and the world's we are confident that the battle will become a victory. Goodbye, my friends. I do not say good-night. Tonight we cannot sleep...
...startling contrast to the languishing Lampy nine, a confident but sober Crimson squad spend last night in a final skull session before the great blackboard in the Plympton Street dugout...