Word: sound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government price fixing is known to be unsound and bound to result in disaster," he said. "A Government subsidy would work out in the same way. It cannot be sound for all of the people to hire some of the people to produce a crop which neither the producers nor the rest of the people want...
...Europe air mail-service still lags because international jealousies make it difficult to devise a plan to carry mail on a sound, economic basis...
...cases attempts to raise for discussion some fundamental principle of municipal government and each involves an issue which permits an argument on both sides. In some of the cases the decision arrived at has been given and the student is asked whether or not he believes it was a sound one and the reason for his opinion. In others the facts are presented and the student is expected to work out a possible solution by applying the principles which have been developed from the lectures, text-books, and other assigned reading in the course. In other event an attempt...
...Copley is now given over to strange and uncouth peasants from far places, and gents who wear caps for headgear, and the tense moment just after Hodolph Krauswitz, the Swiss millionaire, has been found dead in the laundry basket is disturbed by ribald yells from the galleries and the sound of cracking peanut shells. It is a far cry from the old days when "Pygmalion" was such a success that it ran for two weeks, and the politest of Back Bay hand clapping greeted the first American performance of Pinero's "Big Drum...
CIVIC REPERTORY THEATRE?Eva Le Gallienne's troupe in a shifting bill of sound plays, soundly played...