Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...president of Rollins College? (TIME, Sept. 28, 1925) at Winter Park, Fla., and he proceeded to get Rollins mentioned soon and frequently in educational journals by abolishing lectures; instituting an informal course in things bookish; and coming out for frankness about professionalism in college athletics. He made Rollins College sound like a sensible little institution with no frills or fads about it. Nothing was far ther from the boom spirit of Florida and the spirit of gigantism in higher learning than this college at which some 240 responsible students were gathered around a retired liberal editor to improve themselves...
...answered as you know, Mr. Altman's letter to TIME [TIME, May 30] requesting you, if possible to give him a "sound rea son why he should embrace a deity which offered no evidence of existence...
...William A. Muldoon of the New York State Boxing Commission announced that care would be taken to select as radio spokesmen at future fights, persons capable of describing the condition of the fighters without misleading overemphasis on bloody eyes, cut noses, swollen ears, which make "boxing" sound like "fighting...
...physician must not expect as much money as a man of corresponding ability who is engaged in business. He must not expect as much leisure. He must realize he is an emergency man. Like the fireman, he must come sliding down the brass pole at the first sound of alarm...
...Christian Endeavor movement among young people is comparatively recent. The late Rev. Francis E. Clark, who died last May, founded it Feb. 2, 1881, at his Williston Congregational Church in Portland, Me. Members were obliged to pledge themselves to attend weekly prayer meetings of their local society. So sound was Dr. Clark's idea that 80 evangelical religious denominations have sponsored the movement. It has societies in 60 different countries; has more than 3,500,000 members. Of these members 20,000 went to Cleveland last week...