Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...argument that the postponement of the discussion on the League of Nations will lead to its being shelved permanently is not sound. If the League of Nations is such that enthusiasm over its adoption can be cooled within a year, it cannot have the whole-hearted support of the majority. Peace first, and then a league to enforce that peace; that is the world's need, not something to enforce what is yet to be obtained...
Entrance into violent athletic contests in which there is always some danger of injury, must be a matter of the student's own choosing. All that the college can reasonably be expected to do, is to see that every man who enters is at least organically sound, and in fairly good physical condition...
...mere cultured ornament of a practical world but a strong support in time of need. Professor Sabine was all three. Science remembers him for his studies in acoustics. The men of the University hold him dear for those hours in Jefferson when notes and books were forgotten as "sound ghosts" and electric discharges were made real by a man who had explored all their wonders and yet had a sympathetic interest in the misunderstandings of young undergraduates. The country honors and thanks him for the lives of many soldiers saved from German batteries, located by his sound stations...
...academic year 1916-17 Professor Sabine went to the University of Paris as Exchange Professor. It was there in France that he performed services for the Allies in connection with the War which were of incalculable value. An expert on sound, he was asked by the French Government to experiment with sounding devices. In this connection, he made experimental flights in aeroplanes and went below the sea on a French submarine. He also invented a most successful sounding device for locating artillery, which has been used to a large extent by the Allied Armies with excellent results...
...made extensive experiments upon the relative power of matter to absorb sound, and was a specialist in the acoustics of buildings and rooms...