Word: sound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cocky little boats with pale sails, maneuvering this way and that on quiet water like a fleet of river butterflies, swerved at the sound of a gun and passed between a committee yacht and a red buoy, putting out of Larchmont harbor into Long Island Sound. They were the interclub sloops (Marconi-rigged yachts, 19½ feet on the water line), the new racing boats; and their appearance meant that the yacht-racing season had begun again in Eastern waters. Soon the boats of the other classes -the graceful, low-leaning "S" boats with their big spread of canvas...
Last week the Senate Committee on Commerce was wrangling talmudically over whether the deposit completed the sale. If not, certain Northwest interests, which fear the Dollars will deflect shipping away from the Columbia River and Puget Sound territory, may still have opportunity to bid on the boats. At any rate, a good proportion of boats on the Pacific will fly the U. S. flag...
Havelock Ellis-Isaac Goldberg ($4). Biography and criticism of "the most civilized Englishman"-fulsome but sound...
...this any departure from sound and vigorous truth. As announced in this morning's CRIMSON, the newsboys have taken to arms and refuse to continue their matutinal tasks without remuneration commensurate with their, desires. And this of course centers the grand crisis upon the CRIMSON. Alone against the world of organized labor this periodical must stand--or at least that part of the world which delivers the CRIMSON to the breakfast tables--or breakfast arms of Cambridge...
CYRANO DE BERGERAC?Walter Hampden's revival of the sound old romance about a lover with a big nose...