Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House looked stock traders for some word of hope as the market slumped. The President's word: "The fundamental business of the country ... is on a sound and prosperous basis. ... A temporary drop in grain prices in sympathy with stock exchange prices usually happens...
These combined projects equal about three Panama Canals. But, warned President Hoover, their completion "is not the dream of the visionaries-it is the march of the Nation." To their construction he pledged himself "with all the expedition which sound engineering will permit...
...should be possible to develop some sort of an organization in which undergraduates could get some well founded, practical dramatic knowledge by producing good plays, the least advantage would be a sound appreciation of the drama. Such an asset would be a benefit not only to the individual but also to Harvard once so illustrious in the theatrical world...
Lest this new movement sound far too idealistic to be of practical importance, it is of importance to note that the theory of alumni education has already been adopted in one form or another at several colleges in this country. and with the most gratifying results. Such contacts have taken the form of reading lists as at. Dartmouth, and alumni short term sessions as at Lafayette, and in every case the response by the alumni to such efforts on the part of the college has shown that alumni education is a field which is pregnant with possibilities, but which...
...sound of his horn woke me from my bed And the cry of his hounds, which he oft times led Peel's 'View Haloo!' would awaken the dead Or the fox from his lair in the morning. -CUMBERLAND HUNTING SONG In England and Virginia, Ireland and Ohio-wherever British or U. S. horsemen gather, people remembered that song last week, for cub hunting was over, formal fox hunting was beginning. Bank presidents set their alarm clocks for 5:30 a. m. Valets laid out scarlet coats and white breeches. Stalwart young women wore derby hats at dawn...