Word: sounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...farmers' cooperatives' pooling their products, exchanging information, etc.; 2) providing Federal advice and assistance to farmers' cooperatives; 3) providing a voluntary form of registration with the Federal Government, coupled with Federal examination of books to satisfy farmers, purchasers and others, as to the good management and sound condition of cooperatives. A special board of five members-the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Commerce and three members with salaries of $12,000- to be chosen by the cooperatives to coordinate Federal activities as outlined above. Third Report. Efforts should be made to improve the spirit of sympathetic...
...kernel is sound. A young man who lives and breathes only for syncopation marries into a dry-goods family with emporiums the country over. For four years he is bound by the chain store shackle. The family still regard him as a cheap actor, a low comedian, a gutter snipe. He makes the obvious burst and, as the final curtain falls, is headed for Broadway and a career of sound public service as a song-and-dance...
...than a butcher's apprentice of like military rank. Kreisler, on the other hand, found a method of using his musical knowledge for the benefit of the implacable machine. Hearing Death's orchestration booming, sputtering, whistling, mewing, he faced the music, inclined his ear. "Accustomed to the sound of deadly missiles," said he, 'I began to make observations of their peculiarities. ... I found that I could, with a trained musical ear, mark the spot where shells reached their acme, and so could give the almost exact range of the enemy's guns...
...what will become of the amateur critic and his criticism when he learns that the criterion of his artistic judgment has been attacked upon very sound grounds? Professor Alfred E. Zimmern the noted English educator, condemns Harkness for its "imitativeness of Europe" and grows eloquent over the Bush Terminal Building because it represents "a real piece of the American mind." The word "piece" is important, since it leaves one to believe there are other pieces...
Flaming Love. The producer helped himself to Eugene O'Brien, Ben Alexander, Mae Busch and several other expensive luxuries in casting this picture. The investment seems to have been sound. Without their able acting, the old Western story would have wabbled. It tells of an open-spaces girl married to a creaky drunkard from the East, how he gambled away his character and her fortune and how the burly, silent hero suddenly stepped in from the side lines. The genuine and inventive talents of Miss Busch, in particular, were highly helpful...