Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then came 1922. There was a split in the regular Republican machine, and Mr. Pinchot-who would believe it?-was elected Governor. He gave Pennsylvania a budget system, trimmed the sails of expenditure and set out to put the State on a sound financial basis. He reorganized the State Government and cut the number of departments and bureaus from more than 100 to 18. He also went out to enforce prohibition...
...necessary mechanical equipment for the publication of a bi-weekly pictorial supplement, and more important, a nucleus of editors who could perform the technical work involved. The first supplement appeared the same spring, but it was not until the following autumn that the pictorial work was organized on the sound footing it has since maintained. So far as is known the CRIMSON was the first college daily to issue such a regular illustrated supplement...
Though it has been pointed out that authors do not always welcome adverse criticism, in this case the writers wish to build on whatever is sound in their book, and desire to find out, as soon as possible, the worst that can be said about their theories. The authors are graduates both of the College, and of graduate schools at the University. Mr. Catchings took his degree at the Law School in 1904 and Mr. Foster received an A. M. degree from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in the same year...
...Philadelphian, Agnes Repplier, will remember the hammers that are building the new Fogg Museum and which are heard between words of some lecture in Emerson or Sever, and readily agree. "Noise", says Miss Repplier, "is savage. It is time that scientists were concerned with some means of collecting sound, carrying it away somewhere and dumping it. We need, not an invention to reproduce or carry sound, but one to eliminate it." And there is wisdom in her words. The noise of motor cars, the squeals of subways, the various rattles and reverberations of modern times make of life a jagged...
...which were only surpassed by its deeps. Alan Mowbray as the young physician made love to Miss Standing, who played the young lady playwright with his left hand while he solved the riddle with his right. He nearly fell asleep along with us but his recoveries out of a sound sleep were nothing short of marvelous. May Ediss was well cast as the mother of the wronged young man and soothed the audience with her well-bred voice. She was in great contrast to the girl's mother, played by Elspeth Dudgeon. Miss Dudgeon was the only person...