Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Contemplation is not a term of mere thoughtfulness. It connotes opportunity to watch undisturbed and to reason with care. In college education, it holds the added significance of wide speculation inducing as sound general conclusions on existence as a term of four years will permit. Din, educational or otherwise, is not consonant with formal education. The student is somewhat in the position of a diver gauging the spring of the board and the depth of the pool. It is hardly prudent to push him in before he has some idea of how far he will be thrown and how deep...
...line from one of his little songs which describes the abilities of the man and the ostrich and points out that our great politicians would have a hard time in doing as well. Mr. Lupino is not of the wisecracking, smut-slinging school. All his laughs depend on sound principles of burlesque and a certain ridiculous irresponsibility that makes him seem at all times spontaneous. Possibly you may not sympathize as we do with Mitzi, but if you don't like Mr. Lupino we shall wait for you some night out by the Rotunda...
...movies can be divided into integral parts without any appreciable loss of interest. It is the producer's job to bring his story to a climax and at the same time allow the transient audience to catch on all the way along the line. D. W. Griffith is quite sound in his belief that this hap-hazzard method of presentation hampers the artistic advance of motion pictures immeasurably...
...transmitting station, where the image of an object or person is made to pass over a photo-electric cell at immense speed, through lenses in a revolving disk. Using ordinary methods to broadcast the words of people moving before the televisor lenses, it was found that sight and sound synchronized perfectly at the receiving...
Alaunts Double, a bulldog as scarred and seamed and magnetically ugly as a Prussian duelist. Owned by Lee & Rawes of Philadelphia. There was an even uglier dog in this class, Sensible Fred, owned by Thomas Grisdale of New York. But he was not quite so sound as Alaunts, and soundness, in a bulldog, is more important even than spectacular hideousness...