Word: sounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was a tomblike silence in the room. Premier Theunis of Belgium poised his pen above a paper which lay before him. His right hand descended swiftly, there was a dexterous movement, a horrid, scratchy sound, a faint bump and a signature had been penned. A score of suspended breaths were released and the paper passed on to the representatives of France, Italy, Japan, with the same ceremony. Then the paper was passed along to U. S. Ambassador Frank B. Kellogg, Secretary of State-designate, at present accredited to the Court of St. James's in London. Mr. Kellogg...
...Logic", by John Finley Jr., builds upon what is also a sound basis of critical thought. "The really important things," he says, "are those we face daily. A subway ride, for instance, is much more vital than a crisis, a great transaction, and things like that, because people spend more time in the subway than they do in crises. To be interested in crises, which rarely or never occur, and to be bored in the subway seems idiocy to me. So a college which teaches you to be successful in the crisis but a failure at amusing yourself...
...began with fundamentals, comprehensible to the lay mind, explaining wave-motion by slides and motion pictures of a number of experiments. He showed the properties of water waves and similar mechanical waves. He showed the properties of sound waves. From these, he went on to show the properties of the different but analogous waves of light. All this was to demonstrate the principle on which one of his great inventions-which he has labored 40 years in perfecting-is based...
...short, he would make "service" as well as "brains" the basis of admission. As a supplement to existing examinations, he would test a student's capacity to "make the most of his opportunities" in the service of society. These phrases sound well, but it is significant that the practical details of such a test have not yet been given out by Doctor Graves...
...Wells has long had a predilection for theories of education. He has already devoted much thought and ink to putting England's educational system on a sound basis, Now, either satisfied that England is saved, or convinced that she is beyond help--one can't be sure which it is--Mr. Wells volunteers to snatch the United States from deterioration...