Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: We regret that we cannot, in the interest of sound journalism, subscribe to or recommend TIME for subscription...
...article in the Harvard Crimson (undergraduate daily). These two men were one and the same-a certain Lucius Beebe, who, after being ousted from Yale, entered the class of 1927 at Harvard. Since a mind divided against itself cannot cavil, and a broken allegiance is apt to mean a sound opinion, undergraduates and graduates of both colleges found Student Beebe's views interesting. Said...
Four years ago the first attempt was made to put the game on a sound, confidence-inspiring basis. The league has been formed on the same principles as the major league baseball organizations. Rules and regulations are strictly enforced, and particular weight is attached by professional promoters on keeping the amateur issue clear. Each club is made to post $1000 which is forfeit if the club employs and amateur who has not definitely renounced his amateur status. No club may have more than 16 men on its roster, but at the same time, at least that number must be present...
...been the diversion of certain modernist critics to write about music in terms of color, painting in the idiom of sound. They have pleasantly conjectured how Beethoven's Fifth Symphony would taste if the listener's auditory nerves were transferred to his lips; what sort of noise a banana would make did the observer devour it with his ears. Last week Harry Grindell-Matthews, British inventor of the "death-ray" (TIME, June 2 & 9, 1924, SCIENCE), demonstrated certain devices with which he had turned theoretical flippancies of the dilettanti into mechanical realism. It is of course an impossibility...
Chauncey is not a name with a particularly manly sound, and Boston "townies" were loud with their falsetto derision of this newcomer in the Harvard backfield. But however funny the name of Chauncey-or the name of Marion Adolphus Cheek, for that matter-may have been to pool-parlor nickel-spinners, the weaker sisters of the Harvard eleven would have fared badly had not Chauncey's toe sent a ball over the crossbar. Score: Harvard 3, Brown...