Word: sounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week to tell on the Administration, with the prospect that its farm plans might be modified. Secretary Jardine announced that he was considering the problem of the surplus, that he had decided to call a number of "leaders" to Washington from time to time to confer on a "sound and effective" plan. So the Administration began to turn in its tracks...
...means! Investments in the new Russia are absolutely sound, because they are guaranteed by our Civil Code. The Harriman interests know this, and have obtained great manganese concessions in Georgia.* The production of their Georgian Manganese Co. was 63,000 metric tons last month...
...done to keep you from hearing simultaneously the matrimonial differences of the slovenly young couple upstairs, the radio in 4-A, the quacking of the saxophone across the hall and the telephonic improprieties of the bachelor below? Steel girders, plaster and cement can muffle but never quite extinguish sound; but last week a scientist came forward with the statement that noise can be kept out of a room just as well as a snowstorm can; that a scream can be locked up. He, Dr. Paul Heyl, Chief of the U. S. sound laboratory (Bureau of Standards), has invented a soundproof...
...confusion. The diplomats did not hear a single ribald chuckle of jazz; the charity strutters were not bored by the supplications of fiddle strings. Reporters asked Dr. Heyl questions. Said he: "The partition is made of hair felt, supported by thin boards of sugar-cane fibre, and the musical sounds become tangled and lost in this wilderness of hair and fibre. Hair, fibre and similar pliable substances, we have found, enmesh and deaden sound which would vibrate through the strongest steel...
Psychologically sound is the method used to win the confidence of the laborers: the college man shows his ability with pick and shovel, ax and saw, so that his fellow laborers may judge him by their own standards. In the evenings, conditions are reversed; the college man gives instruction appropriate to the development of his pupils...