Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...considering the essays submitted in the CRIMSON'S contest the Committee of Judges sought an immediate and practical solution of the eating problem which should have a sound basic principle and be capable of future development and elaboration. Each judge real the ten essays, criticised, and rated them. The Committee then met and carefully discussed the essays in detail...
...heard Bryan for more than two hours on the silver question. I discovered that one could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape a fact or a sound statement...
Last week the scientific world heard of a noise that was literally "killing." Inaudible to human ears, it consisted of extremely short, rapid sound waves produced from electrically driven quartz crystals. Similar waves had been used in submarine detection, during the War, when it was noticed that fish in the experimental tanks were occasionally killed. Subsequent experiment had shown that stagnant water could be freed from microorganisms; that small fish died in convulsions after "hearing" the quartz waves; that the blood count of a swimming mouse was reduced one half after 20 minutes' exposure. Possible significance: swift purification...
...snore of the planes gave the spectators a sensation of excitement. A racing plane, with its enormous dual motors, makes a wilder sound than an ordinary plane. Spectators were reported to be so intent as to pay no attention to ad interim announcements of big football games. Yet an airplane race is better to hear than to watch. Some say that they would rather see two fleas racing across a piece of paper than the fastest planes in the world...
This statement, however natural it may sound to us, is somewhat disingenuous. In the first place, the independence sentiment has been artificially stimulated by the Filipino politicians for their own selfish ends. In the second place, nearly every one of the leaders who have advocated it in public admit that in private that they do not believe the time has yet come for the Americans to withdraw completely from the Islands. Their secret ideal is for complete independence under the protecting arm of the United States, with the right to call on us for unlimited funds to experiment with government...