Word: sound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reports indicated that it was the President's intention 1) to appoint a commission to study the problem of disposing of Muscle Shoals- as suggested by a resolution passed by the House shortly before its adjournment; 2) to have Secretary of State Kellogg sound out naval powers on the question of holding a new limitation of armaments conference for light cruisers and submarines, as soon as it became apparent that the attempt for limitation of armaments under the League of Nations (see Page 6) had definitely failed...
...SLAVE SHIP- Mary Johnston- Little, Brown ($2.00). One of those slow-moving but inevitable groundswells of approval- the usual reward of sound, unspectacular workmanship- has gathered behind Mary Johnston's sombre study of the 18th Century slave trade. The tale is David Scott's, told in his own burred words. A young Scotch Jacobite, he fell in with the dark traffic upon escaping from penal indenture in Virginia. The evils of that traffic, the crime of the hideous Middle Passage, bore heavy on his Scotch conscience...
Stark Young - "Safe and sound and tried and trusty...
Merchants look, and not without sound evidence, for a generally profitable spring. Beyond that, the outcome will depend largely on the size and profitable character of our major crops and the situation abroad...
Everything was going very nicely when the boat took a sudden lurch to Coach Stevens' side and the sharp sound of his broken oar was heard...