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Word: sound (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Having sound judgment, breadth of view, enthusiasm and a background of good experience, I can offer an employer responsible, dependable, loyal assistance. I would welcome work that offered pleasant conditions, mental activity, and an opportunity to become again a self-sustaining individual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Jowly, serious Teacher Stevenson was soon bitten by the insurance bug. Said he: "Rarely do we have a conjunction of something so economically and socially sound and so mathematically perfect." He became a salesman ten years ago when he was made manager of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. home office agency in Philadelphia, wrote as much as $3,000,000 worth of policies in one year. Last week when President William Kingsley moved up to the chairmanship, 52-year-old Vice President Stevenson succeeded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSURANCE: Ex-Teacher | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Amidst continuing sound & furor over the way the National Labor Relations Board had administered the Wagner Act, NLRB last week made its own report on its record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: A. F. of L's Fruits | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...machine's possible sound combinations are so various that Voder can imitate the inflections, overtones and shading of human diction. By altering pitch it can change from a man's voice to a woman's or a child's. It can mimic animal sounds, locomotive whistles, the noise of an airplane engine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Voder | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...abandoned arsenals, aircraft shops, and school rooms. This is in line with a series of moves to build up personnel reserves and stimulate the aircraft industry, which would be needed in case of war. Said CAA's chairman, Businessman Edward J. Noble, of the student-pilot program: "... A sound measure of national defense . . . sound business for the air industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sound Business | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

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