Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great mass of our people, . . . know that the doctrine of ease is the doctrine of decay. . . . The heart of the nation is sound...
...separate the chaff from the grain, to be on our guard against the obvious dangers, and to eliminate one by one the improper practices until, precisely as in the case of our banking structure, we may be able to establish fairly definite and generally accepted standards for distinguishing the sound from the unsound, the real from the specious? When installment selling comes to be measured by these criteria, we may expect to learn that the innocuous and the salutary must not be confounded with the inappropriate and the regrettable, and that, in its ultimate and refined forms, installment credit will...
...containing an elevator. In this small and dirty mechanical marvel there squats an old man, usually colored, holding in his hand a bit of frayed rope. When some citizen or sight-see-er enters the elevator with the desire to be hoisted upward, the old blackamoor makes a sad sound and tugs at his rope. Then there is a flash of light, a noise of grinding wheels, a draft of wind; with a slow, drunken irregularity, the rickety cage wobbles toward...
...divertissement embodies the usual dancing chorus, better than usual, and impressions of Ted Lewis and Eddie Leonard, and some community singing which doesn't sound at all bad in the dark. But it was the pants that got his reviewer. The pants are worn by two gentlemen named Herman and Seaman, or something like that, and you never saw two men do more with two pairs of pants in your life. They climb around in and on each other, and emerge from the scrimmage germinated in each other's nether clothing...
...another six: or of two courses in Roman Satire one, may include about twice as much as the other. Therefore, when one discovers that Princeton has 12 courses in Greek, Dartmouth 10, Yale 9, Cornell 8, Columbia 7, Williams 6, and Harvard 5, it is hard to draw any sound conclusions from this information. The weakness of Harvard in this line is, however, unmistakable--and rather curious considering that to the man in the street Harvard is synonymous with all that is highbrow. And yet here Harvard has a gigantic new Business School, and less courses in Greek than even...