Word: sounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grandstands arose a hubbub. Individually, each sound was intelligible; collectively, they were like the jabbering of so many apes...
Most enthusiasm has been exhibited with public utility shares, despite their recent rise. These whilom conservative issues have lately become most lively vehicles for speculation, owing both to sound anticipation of large future earnings and more doubtfully sound but excited talk of "big mergers...
...being so much discussed at present throughout the press. There are many pleas for modifications of American systems of education to which this article is an adequate answer. No demand for greater freedom for individual thinking is worth a moment's consideration, if it ignores the necessary part a sound knowledge of facts must play in sound thinking. "No man's thinking is better than his information...
Although it is desirable that the college undergraduate should lay a sound foundation of mathematics and science for his subsequent engineering studies, it is quite as important that he acquire a knowledge of men and of things outside his chosen professional field. While he has the opportunity, he should cultivate an interest in and an appreciation of, some field of human activity, such as art or literature that will serve as a recreation from the daily work of his profession or business. Such avocations will not only enrich his life, and enlarge his points of human contact, but they often...
...Sound advice, from a certain diminutive Carnoustie man who teaches golf near Chicago, to persons going to golf at Troon, is this: "Gae oot on the fi-rrst nine o' Troon, an' gae in on the second nine o' Pr-restwuk. Hae yer lonch, an' gae oot on the fir-rst nine o' Pr-restwuk, comin' in on the last nine o' Troon. Aye, an' ye'll pay only one gr-reen...