Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...during the past three years developed and organized a magnificent foundation along the lines of industrial preparedness. I coreeive it my duty to follow as best I can the wise policies and sound lires of his work. Every citizen should be interested, because the safety of his posterity is most affected, and we must have his active interest and cooperation if we are to insure against disaste...
...group of business men is so impressed by the country's immense credit and money power that it is less inclined to predict a business slump in 1926. They point out that never in the history of the country has bank credit been so cheap, abundant and apparently sound at the crest-if it is one-of a business boom. In general they believe that our great banking resources are today a stabilizing factor that never existed before in anything like the same degree...
...Division of History, Government and Economics in 1914 and has gradually spread to all the divisions with the exception of science departments requiring laboratory research and the Engineering School. The primary purpose of this method, as announced, is by means of individual guidance, to develop in the student sound and effective habits of thinking and the initiative to acquire knowledge from sources outside of the class room. Its aim is also to supplement the more or less passive learning process of the lecture course and to awaken the student's interest in active thinking...
...Pittsburgh, the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers convened. Their president, Engineer S. E. Dibble, touched upon the heat of the future in a manner coolly prophetic: "It is no more improbable to broadcast heat waves than it was to broadcast sound waves. . . . The day is not far off when we shall see huge centralized heating plants broadcasting heat to be utilized at far distant points in homes, plants and office buildings...
...blue Mediterranean and the bluer Adriatic seemingly lapped idly along the sunny shores of lower Italy. Beneath mystical cypresses and spreading palms, fountains splashed with silver sound, and the scent of many flowers lay upon the air. Sleek and graceful bodies gleamed through the foliage, all at rest yet all poised in the fleetness of arrested motion. It was a spot and a sight created for the pleasure of a multitude, and a multitude, the automobile-loving public of Manhattan and thereabouts, prepared...