Word: sound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Products (called by the late Secretary of Agriculture Wallace), President Coolidge warned: "The era of free, wild timber is reaching its end, as the era of free, wild food ended so long ago. We can no longer depend on moving from one primeval forest to another, for already the sound of the axes has penetrated the last of them...
...Senator Curtis were chosen, someone else would have to replace him as Republican whip. The whip's function is to circulate among the members of his party, sound them out in regard to specific measures, discover whether any of them had made embarrassing commitments that would prevent them from lining up with the others on a given bill, ascertain what amendments would make a bill acceptable to individual members of his group and generally try to line up the party vote. It is an important post, and Mr. Curtis has shown himself able in filling...
...ought to go suddenly into an Apache dance with the District Attorney and stab her way back to the underworld. Against a Bar Harbor background she jars perceptibly. Still that was the way the whole play went. It was a cheap conception by Cosmo Hamilton, probably having originally a sound satirical value. The latter was played out of it by a poor cast and burlesqued by a bad director...
Silence. Time was when the melodrama factories worked double shift turning out absorbing trash to the public taste. Of late years, the melodrama market has slumped and the mental machineries turned to other products. Max Marcin caught the operators napping with a sound old timer, perfectly played by H. B. Warner and geared so high that even the wicked old critics felt thrills crawling busily about them...
...financial side the modern university is a huge and multiplex corporation. Requiring sound business organization in a mass and flexible administration in every detail. Educational it confronts a well high insoluble problem, that of teaching modern scientific methods without neglecting the humanities, and of inculcating a liberality of mind that stops short of destructive radicalism. Conceivably, the graduate, in the intervals of carnival rejoicing, might accuse his Alma Mater of sacrificing teachers of might to a balanced budget, of accumulating laboratories while the classics decay, of grinding the face of liberalism beneath the heel of the business man's conservatism...