Word: sound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blank to be filled in. One gap was soon pointed out by Export-Import Bank President Samuel C. Waugh. Would the fund's easy terms undermine the businesslike hard loans that both the Export-Import Bank and World Bank are trying to make the basis for sound international development? "Soft" loans, Waugh told the Senate committee, could "imperil the status of any loans made on a strictly banking basis." Also missing from the plan was any proposal for legislation to encourage private investment abroad...
...huge-wheeled bicycle becomes a harp; the phrenetic maestro sharpens his baton with a pencil sharpener. Purpose of the Hoffnung concert (recorded at London's Royal Festival Hall with a full symphony orchestra and some of Britain's leading musicians) was to translate the cartoons into sound. The result is spectacular, in a sort of highbrow Spike Jones vein...
...more narrative pull. It's a great novel! I know I don't look it, but damn it, it is! It's the greatest novel we've had in America! What else have we got? Look Homeward, Angel? O.K. U.S.A.? Fair. Faulkner? The Sound and the Fury is his best, but not all that...
False Notion. Though North Carolina-born Dr. Ivey has kept his board out of the integration controversy, he has sold educators and politicians alike on the idea that "there is nothing more isolationist than our colleges, and there is no greater barrier to sound development than the generally accepted notion of institutional sovereignty." The board's biggest job ahead: a survey of the South to see what will be needed to meet the coming onrush of students...
...governors who head the S.R.E.B. membership, it was a blow-which was probably the surest measure of Ivey's success. Said Florida's Governor Le Roy Collins somewhat ruefully: "He is one of the top young men in the nation. He has preached the sound doctrine that the South should use the manpower and brains of the South to improve the South, that we should stop the flow of our best-trained men and women to the North. And now I hope he hasn't deserted us entirely...