Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past. The advertising writers, in fact, have already gone far ahead of the reporters. They choose their words more carefully; they are better workmen, if only because they have more time for good work. I predict formally that they will produce a great deal of the sound American literature of tomorrow...
Although it is desirable that college undergraduates should lay a sound foundation of mathematics and sciences for his subsequent engineering studies, it is quite as important that he acquire a knowledge of men and of things outside his chosen professional field. While he has the opportunity he should cultivate an interest in, and an appreciation of, some field of human activity, such as art or literature that will serve as a recreation from the daily work or his profession or business. Such avocations will not only enrich his life, and enlarge his point of human contact, but they also often...
...need to make a broad canvas of the field before adopting the important question of adopting geology as a profession. Such men are recommended to seek expert advice in distribution and in the election of "free" courses. With such guidance every man will be assured of a sound, education, a suitable preparation for any professional school. If a man plans to be a leader among professional geologists, he is advised to postpone as far as possible his real specialization in his chosen field until after the bachelor's degree has been obtained
...Author of this encyclopedic work, whereof the wit is second only to the scholarly wealth, is Editor of House and Garden, the sedentary sound of which title he dispels forever with a romantic introductory prose-poem: a series of fadeouts from the motor-clogged highways of today to the first faint trails through the trader's forest...
Simultaneous with this news, celebrations reached their climax for the centenary of the death of a music master whose affliction was even greater, for a musician, than blindness. Ludwig van Beethoven was bodily sound but became stone deaf. As his hearing dwindled, his conducting, which he would not give up, became more and more ludicrous. He would bend over his keys to hear what he played until his orchestra quite lost sight of him. At the crescendoes he could and would straighten up, crouch up, stand up, finally leap up off the floor itself in passionate release...