Word: sound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Helen was positive that the Chief Justice had said "preserve, maintain and defend," not "preserve, maintain and protect." Finally the movietone was invoked to settle the question. Its sound record proved Helen right, the Chief Justice wrong, on both counts. Mr. Taft, highly diverted, said he didn't think it was important. Perhaps, after he has sworn in nine presidents, like Chief Justice Marshall, or even seven, like Chief Justice Taney, his memory of the lines will not fail Chief Justice Taft...
...Mellon's next notable act was to issue a statement which, had the Congress been in session, must have raised the roof of the Capitol. Said Mr. Mellon: "This is a good time for the prudent investor to buy bonds. ... It is easier to pick out sound bonds than sound stocks" (see BUSINESS...
...Professor Hall's letter apparently led some of the Boston newspapers to say that a large proportion of the Harvard Faculty, the undergraduates, and the alumni were hostile to the "house plan." Now, the Bulletin is in a position where it can form a reasonably sound judgment about the opinions of Harvard men, young and old. We are certain that the opposition to the new project, from any source, is inconsiderable, and that such as exists is based on unfamiliarity with the enterprise. Members of the Faculty are, naturally enough, concerned about the details, and it is quite possible that...
...together an illustrious body of jurists to deal with an important aspect of the administration of justice. The purpose of Professor Sayre and his colleagues, an attack on specific problems relative to fitting the punishment to the criminal and not to the crime, appears to the layman as a sound method for dealing with criminal cases. What the Institute is able to report from its studies will be eagerly awaited by those interested in the advancement of social justice...
...William Lowell Putnam, the futility of the plan, as it was executed last year, is obviously suggested; Tardiness and negligence on the part of the University authorities is alleged, but aside from these possible considerations, the foundations of this new scholastic field of competition were none too sound at its inception...