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Word: sound (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forgive its major improbabilities of plot, there is much sound cinematic realism in South Sea Love. Doubtless men do not go to the South Seas to find pearls with which to buy musical comedy careers for lovely actresses; but if they did, they might well behave as herein suggested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 20, 1928 | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

Many an investor was reassured of his sound financial sense last week when more corporations announced their earnings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: More Earnings | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

Cynical expressions of the ironic variations of human behavior are surely less sound than statistics derived from oft-demonstrated laws of genetics. Missionaries must have good health, energy, moral fervor, the spirit of adventure; hence their sons are likely to have the same. College professors must be morally and intellectually sound; their sons are likely to be so. A minister's calling brings him, Dr. Huntington pointed out, into contact with high-grade women, one of whom he is likely to marry. Said Dr. Huntington: "I may be prejudiced, but I am inclined to think that ministers get better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Able Sons | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

...What Lampy has tried to do is to show this as a link in a chain of policy, the policy of withdrawing from active interest in the undergraduate element at Harvard to concentrate on the more esoteric functions of graduate study and research. Whether or not this is a sound conclusion is a question for careful reflection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HUMORISTS EXPATIATE ON THE READING PERIOD | 2/18/1928 | See Source »

...greedily. Said the famed promoter: "Jack Dempsey is through with the ring." Said Fisticuffer Dempsey in California: "If Tex says so I guess it's true." Failing sight owing to socks in and about the eye were among the reasons offered. Skeptics of the press, long used to sound and fury meaning nothing but publicity, pointed out wearily that Dempsey would not be through with the ring until the public unmistakably gave evidence of unwillingness to pay to see him fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Eye Wash | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

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