Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Humbug" and for leaving out passages which I considered essential toward bringing out my point. My opinions are always subject to correction, and if there is any suggestion you have to offer as to why they are faulty, I shall be very grateful to you. Can you furnish any sound reason as to why I should embrace a deity which offers no evidence of existence ? If I should place my faith in this deity, why wouldn't it be just as logical to place my faith in Santa Claus as well? In fact the latter gentleman ought to command...
...State (TIME, May 2) were told what they must do. Capital must cut prices; but would be allowed also to cut wages. Labor must accept lower wages; but would find the purchasing power of these wages increased by the cutting of prices. Theoretically this procedure was simple, sound. It was as simple and as sound as "daylight saving." But some skulls will not comprehend that a day is the same, no matter what the hours are called. Similarly some Italians could not understand last week that it makes no difference what a man's wage or profit...
Freshman social life will reach its climax tonight with the appearance of blue and white clad youths and fair damsels, the twinkle of long lines of fantastically colored lanterns, and the sound of soft music in the usually prosale quadrangle of Smith Halls, for it is the night of the Jubilee...
...Sullivan made it sound as though he had . expended much time and effort on McGuffey's. "There also was a man named McGuffey," he said. "I have learned enough to be able to say with some confidence that William Holmes McGuffey had a larger influence . . . than, for example, several Presi dents of the United States...
...convention of the National Retail Dry Goods Association in Chicago last week, President Homer Buckley of Buckley, Dement & Co., Chicago, said: "The theory [that the customer is always right] is sound because 99% of the people are honest. The other 1% takes advantage of the practice and the store may lose on the deal, but the loss is compensated by keeping the others satisfied." Because two years ago 12% of gross volume of department store sales was returned by dissatisfied customers, the University of Pittsburgh is conducting research to learn just who is at fault-customer or merchant. Data...