Word: sound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like to offer for immediate consideration. In the first place cut the requirement down from two languages to one and raise the standards in that one to a point which would insure more than a superficial knowledge of it. Secondly, in all elementary courses advisable give assignments requiring a sound reading knowledge of at least one language. Provision could be made in giving these assignments for students who had not yet satisfied the regular requirements; the others would be called on to exercise the ability they had exhibited in the language examinations and would also be made to realize...
...would duly enquire about the best form of a state ought first to determine which is the most eligible life". It is not intended that either of these inquiries shall be slighted. It is believed that their union will be fruitful, and that it will conduce to sound judgment on the concrete problems of contemporary civilization...
While this plan of study is believed to be sound in principle there are no illusions as to its difficulty. It is believed that in view of the present limitations and decentralization of the social sciences the new field of concentration demands a special aptitude and seriousness of purpose
...Christmas Day, 1893, in Santa Rosa, Calif., was born a man who has been called a liar more often than any living U. S. inhabitant. His name is Robert L. ("Rip") Ripley. His peculiar ability is to say things that sound like lies, and then prove them to be absolutely true. His medium is a cartoon entitled "Believe It or Not," which appears daily in the New York Evening Post and 100 other newspapers. His greatest hornswoggling of the "lie"-hurlers was a drawing of Charles Augustus Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis bearing the caption: "Lindbergh...
...Hissing is the only sound in nature which makes no echo...