Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Underwood of Alabama (a Kentuckian by birth), one of the abler men of his party, "sound and conservative," who is serving his final term in the Senate, having announced that he will retire next March, had been pressing for an amendment to the Senate rules such as has been favored by Vice President Dawes-an amendment which would require a vote on revenue and appropriation bills to be taken and debate to be shut off by majority petition, so that bills may not be talked to death by a vociferous minority...
...School of Architecture, the most important must always be Design. Excellence in Design is the aim for life if every great architect and the School must try its best to give him the soundest fundamentals of the theory and practiced of design. With this, however, must go a sound course in Construction. Without
...remedies proposed by the students are along the sound lines now being followed in many colleges. By a considered charting of the four years study, a sound balance between variety and thoroughness may be achieved. By encouraging more intimate relations between instructors and instructed, a true education may be approximated...
...Lawson's contention is sound, one wonders why the Monitor did not capture the Merrimac, and why the Monitor herself fled to shoal water and to the protection of Fortress Monroe when the Merrimac twice came down the river and offered fight...
Last fortnight Captain Frankau traveled to St. Louis. It seemed a good place to proclaim what sound old Tories were thinking over their port in the London clubs. Incidentally, a convention of U. S. booksellers was in session there, to whom Frankau, who maintains that the national significance** of his novels has impressed "every one who can read in the British Isles," would just say a word...