Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William DeWitt Mitchell, also of Minnesota. For five months President Hoover and his astute Attorney-General had cast about for a successor to Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt. Candidates there were galore from every State but the President's requirements were high: a thoroughgoing Dry, possessed of a sound legal mind and ample industry, beyond the influence of front-page publicity. Such a man Mr. Mitchell told President Hoover he would find in Mr. Youngquist. Acceptance of the appointment followed only after long persuasion, for Mr. Youngquist had aspired to become Minnesota's next Governor...
...Bondi, professor of internal medicine at the University of Vienna, that he was regularly shoving a small stethoscope down the throats of his heart patients, revived attention in such esophageal auscultation. The heart is closer to the esophagus than to any other reachable part of the body. Hence its sound can be heard most clearly through the esophagus wall. But to gain extra clearness at the cost of a patient's comfort is something that few doctors will...
...Beep! Beep!" is to U. S. citizens the nearest phonetic approach to the sound of a certain type of motor horn. To Londoners, ''Beep! Beep!'' is the familiar cry of the cat's meat men, picturesque peddlers who sell to thrifty housewives not the meat of cats but little skewers stuck with carefully diced meat for cats. Last week Britons were startled to learn that at least one cat's meat man is not only picturesque but opulent...
...Macauley, president of the Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada, who said that his company (large institutional stock-buyers) was not selling, was buying (TIME, Nov. 4). Others quickly followed his lead. From Washington Dr. Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, radioed to the nation that its business was sound, that only 4% of U. S. families were affected by the break. Others were Stuart Chase and Irving Fisher, famed economists, Paul Shoup of the Southern Pacific, Bowman Gray of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Luther Blake of Standard Statistics Co., Walter P. Chrysler, Roy A. Hunt of Aluminum...
...entire squad, with the exception of Hugely, reported in sound physical condition. O'Connell was back at his right end post, and it seems quite definite that he and Douglas will start Saturday at the wings. There were no other lineup changes; the backfield combination of Wood, Putnam, Devens and Harper, which made its debut against Florida, was working together again. A short but snappy signal drill concluded the afternoon's practice...