Word: sound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is a sound administrative reason for demanding membership lists: to use the Radcliffe name, an organization must prove itself bona fide and of reasonable size. Under normal conditions, this reason would be enough to justify the official position...
...last summer, he was "a bit shocked." Ohio's spry, old ex-governor and Democratic presidential candidate (1920) doesn't "like newspaper monopolies." But a careful look at the books changed his mind. His own evening paper, the Dayton Daily News (circ. 96,000), was financially sound. The rival morning Journal (circ. 41,000) and evening Herald (circ. 66,000), both published by ex-Marine Colonel Lewis B. Rock, were...
...famous supersonic flights by being dropped from a high-flying B29. Last week, trying something new, it took off from the ground for the first time under its own (four rocket motor) power. Piloted by 25-year-old Captain Charles E. Yeager, the first man to fly faster than sound, it streaked across the desert at Muroc Dry Lake, Calif., and was airborne after only 2,300 ft., a shorter ground run than most standard fighters require...
...because of hereditary deficiencies. All humans, say the geneticists, have about the same genetic potentialities. Individual deficiencies come from defects of culture, early nutrition, etc. But such details of accepted science are not likely to be expounded by Soviet propagandists. Western genetics (primacy of heredity) can be made to sound like a "master race" doctrine, and Lysenkoism (primacy of environment) can be made to sound like light and hope-out of Soviet Russia...
...performances (frequently criticized by Manhattan critics): "I realize that with the millions of Metropolitan friends who listen to the ... broadcasts, I am talking to a prejudiced audience-men and women of musical understanding . . . Rest assured that your enjoyment . . . constitutes a critical faculty of very sound artistic validity...