Word: sound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Either your so-called literary critic hasn't read the Overstreet books or is incapable of understanding them. The Overstreets' writings are based on sound findings in psychology and psychiatry. They aren't filled with quasi-religious...
...respected, nonprofit, nonpolitical Committee for Economic Development, made up of businessmen and educators, last week came out for more, not less, foreign aid, called for a long-range program of supplying capital (chiefly in loans) for sound development projects in underdeveloped free world nations that are making "honest efforts at self-help...
Another Thought. But someone else on the team seemed to be thinking in those terms. Almost at the moment Ike made his statement, Treasury Under Secretary W. Randolph Burgess was telling the Senate Finance Committee that a $2 billion to $3 billion budget cut would be "a sound thing." Next day Burgess hurried back to the witness table, cryptically called his variance with the President's views "a false alarm." Like his hair-curling boss, George M. Humphrey, the Under Secretary succeeded only in adding to the impression -valid or not-that the Administration is sharply divided...
...theme currently popular in French intellectual circles. But just how much is sound and how much simple fury? The editors of Paris' intellectual weekly Arts assigned a two-man team to measure U.S. influence in France, last week devoted five pages to their findings...
...minor, branch on the experimental tree--they depended for much of their effect on playing with words. The difficulties and advantages of Joyce's style are familiar enough; the Tardieu play exploited not the possibilities of puns, but of the musical ecects which can be extracted from the sound of words with scant regard paid to their meaning...