Word: sound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House breakfast next morning, the President with the aid of good friend Senator Butler, decided that something-ought-to-be-done. Secretary of Agriculture Jardine and Secretary of Commerce Hoover were summoned. They thought so, too. A Coolidge statement was sent out urging agrarian reform on a "sound basis." Congress was urged to adopt the Fess Bill which would set up a co-operative marketing bureau, financed by a $100,000,000 fund...
...principles of the Quebec plan, I believe, are sound. The plan, as a result of the Government taking over the sale exclusively of all alcoholic beverages and forbidding the consumption of those beverages upon the premises where sold, does away with the saloon and the private liquor traffic. Furthermore, the plan does not permit the establishment of a Government liquor store in any community which has voted that it does not want such a store...
...warrant more than light laughter and a few long yawns. There have, however, been worse plays these recent seasons, several of them. The outcry at Beyond Evil was simply an indication of the growing indignance of metropolitan audiences at high-flown, false emotion badly acted. There is a sound corrective in this frankness. Actors and authors will hesitate before risking unbridled ridicule...
...Radio Corp. of America, and many another vast concern speedily sought Mr. Logan's services. He became known as a wizard at "institutional" advertising. The effects of his work are felt quite as intimately by the individual consumer-in a comfortable, punctual train; a well appointed ship; a sound security. But the distinction between the Messrs. Lasker and Logan, in what they do and how they do it, is as marked as their conjunction is notable...
...manners in the full regalia, atmosphere and personnel of Boston, 1850, and in the full flood of life anywhere, at any time? If so, let a specimen of the descriptive prose be here entered: "The March wind staggered about the Concord house, striking at doors, shaking shutters. By its sound you knew that it smelt of melting earth and sticky buds. Inside was a dingy, not unpleasant taint of coke burning in the Franklin grate, and a lingering fragrance of dinner . . . ticking clocks, the reptilian hiss of fire, and without, the scampering wind...