Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rejoicing in economic prosperity and all self congratulations upon its vast educational system is like the sound of cheerful music as the funeral procession winds its way to the grave, so long as one out of six U. S. marriages ends with divorce. Last week Clarence Edward Noble MacArtney of Pittsburgh and William Chalmers Covert of Philadelphia who have studied the divorce problem for the Presbyterian church, sent that message to 10,000 Presbyterian ministers and recommended that the Presbyterian general assembly at Tulsa, Oklahoma, next May, permit only adultery as the ground for Presbyterian divorces...
...except Yale will win, but Harvard has a chance, a narrow, fighting chance. Yale's offensive strength is directed mainly through its opponent's tackles and guards. An alert Crimson line can stop this style of play to a great extent. Yale's plays are not tricky. They are sound fundamental plays built upon power and team work. Now it is interesting to note that, with the excepting of Purdue, which not met Harvard before Coach Horween's team has struck its stride, no team has raised havoc with Harvard's forward wall through the medium of straight line football...
...appeal to put "fight talks" and psychologizing on the shelf he is basically sound but one has the feeling that Mr. Roper had his tongue in his cheek in writing this chapter...
...easy posture. An easy-chair is excellent, a bed less so because it takes practice to be at ease while in bed and with a relative stranger present. The patient fixes his eyes steadily upon an object placed so that he must strain his sight slightly. A monotonous sound, as from a metronome, drum or chant aids in putting him into somnolescence. The physician may pass his hands slowly and regularly before the staring eyes. But that is unessential. Mesmerists used to believe that waving fingers diffused a sort of magnetism into the patient. No one has proved that theory...
CIVIC REPERTORY THEATRE?Eva Le Gallienne's troupe in a shifting bill of sound plays, soundly played...