Word: sound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...member of this board gains an intimate knowledge of newspaper life, and gets practical experience that will prove of value in later life regardless of his profession. The CRIMSON is a working business organization and lets the board member get a "sound background in the elements of publishing, advertising, publicity, merchandising, selling, and the problems of circulation and printing...
Just as a sub-marginal industrial firm is forced out of business when a depression comes, so should sub-marginal colleges go by the board in these days when a sound education and well-developed minds are at a premium. Institutions which maintain a high standard should receive state and federal aid in the form of scholarships for young men who have the intellectual capacity to benefit from such education...
...success of a democracy depends upon the education of its people. . . . By education I do not mean technical training. Nothing can ever replace the well rounded cultural education which alone can form the basis for a full life and sound political judgment. . . . America today is materially richer than any civilization has perhaps ever been, but we are spiritual paupers and no one can deny...
...pleased with his year's handiwork. Popping up in Baton Rouge before the Louisiana Bankers Conference, he declared: "We both have sizable sums wagered on the ability of American banks to live down the unsavory aspects of their past record and to begin a long era of sound and profitable operation...
...Unalaska in the Aleutian Islands, to St. Michaels in bleak Norton Sound, through storms on the shallow Bering Sea to St. Lawrence Bay on the coast of Siberia, through the Bering Straits to the black cliffs of Herald Island, the Jeannette pushed her way. There she was frozen in, far south of the Pole, even south of waters regularly visited by whalers. Contrary to common belief, the frozen wastes were not silent and inert. Submerged ice floes smashed steadily against the hull of the Jeannette. The pressure on her timbers made the ship crack with a sound like repeated rifle...