Word: sound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Simmons: "I thought it was one of the strongest documents the President has sent us up to this time, and decidedly the most comprehensive. I do not regard all of his recommendations as altogether sound, and I view some of them as quite fallacious, but they are all clearly and strongly presented. His tax recommendations amount to little more than an endorsement of the plan of Secretary Mellon...
Treasury. Secretary Mellon declared that he believed national prosperity is founded on a sound basis and may look hopefully to the future; that the policy of paying off the public debt as rapidly as possible has improved public credit and released funds for investment in business; that in framing tax reduction, personal exemptions should not be raised too high, so that the number of tax payers will be insufficient to furnish necessary revenue in a national emergency. Much of his report contained matter similar to that in the President's budget message...
Rear Admiral William Pratt, Commandant of the Naval War College in Newport, declared that in his opinion the air policy of the Navy Department was intelligent and sound...
...ears of a stolid Scandinavian peasant came cries of anguish. Rushing through the woods toward the sound, he discovered a powerful bearded forester in the act of drubbing in the back with clenched fists, the popular Prince Carl of Sweden. Bewildered, the peasant recognized the two tall figures who stood laughing beside the screaming Prince as their Majesties Gustav V, King of Sweden, and Christian X, King of Denmark...
...edge of a jungle, he cut off his long hair with a sword, exchanged clothes with a wretched mendicant, and betook himself with five disciples to a gorge in the Vindhya Mountains, where he gave himself up to fasting and terrible penances. His fame spread "like the sound of a great bell hung in the canopy of the skies." One day he decided that to attempt to reach God through the emptiness of his belly was preposterous. He ate a healthy meal; refused to continue his morti- fications. His disciples left him. For a long while he wandered, alone...