Word: soberness
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...team is unlike its predecessors, victory will not be attained by mere wishing. In the past two years Harvard has gone away from its defeats disappointed, dejected and perhaps a little "sore" and inclined to search for some hidden explanation for the defeat of the "invincible Crimson machine". But sober second thought has always led to the conclusion that there was only one real explanation--Princeton's superiority. Since the war and especially in the last two years the teams that have worn the Orange and Black have deserved to rank among the best in the country. They have proved...
...attitude of sober confidence. Harvard men realize the power of the Dartmouth team. But they are not pessimistic...
...speech was excellent in that it gave a good idea of the magnitude of the great man's mind; it was restrained and sober in that it avoided exaggeration and yet paid admirable tribute to a man whose greatness cannot fairly be contested even by his greatest enemies. Adapting what Shakespeare said of Cleopatra to David Lloyd George, Mr. Baker said...
Fire Prevention Week has come to join the long list that began with Safety First Week and has reached its zenith in Peace Weeks and Courtesy Weeks. And like the others it is more likely to serve as "an innocent source of merriment" than as a cause for sober thought. After all the idea of a calendar in which every week is the occasion for a Clean Up Drive in Zenith or a Fire Prevention Drive throughout the country, is amusing enough to the superior undergraduate...
...poet's fluent readability is his redeeming grace. For "lovely lines" are to be found, but when they come they shine with special lustre in their sober background...