Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Column 1, page 16. "Wildebeest" is good Boer Dutch for the South African antelope, which the Hottentots called the "gnu," the spelling being as nearly as possible the English equivalent of the Hottentot nasal sound, and which name the Cape English accepted...
...Marriage Bed-Ernest Pascal, novelist, Ernest Pascal, film scenarist, becomes Ernest Pascal, playwright. While preparing dramas for the cinema he wrote a play, last week produced in Los Angeles with considerable California éclat and a good smattering of sound Manhattan theatre. It was an able play, staged with excellent ability by Robert Milton, famed Broadway director.* The principal performers were Alice Joyce and Owen Moore, cinemactors...
...Buren. and before California became a state, Ellen Scripps was born. In 1873 she helped her brother found a newspaper which was the first of today's Scripps newspaper syndicate. "Miss Ellen" always considered her wealth a public trust. She harkened to the faintest plea for a sound philanthropical cause. She has endowed hospitals, schools, given parks, community buildings...
...speak of the value of this poll, stating that "nowhere is sound information on political questions more readily obtainable than in a university like Harvard". I am inclined to question the truth of this statement when the CRIMSON has done everything in its power to discourage a sober consideration of the principles and issues at stake...
Physician Loring's approach to the ill-starred textile industry, he revealed, is through its only sound and healthy part. While textile mills have failed, textile selling houses, or converters, have been showing profits. Notable among successful converters is the Cohn-Hall-Marx Co. (Manhattan) which increased its yearly (fiscal) earnings from $4.21 a share in 1927 to $6.47 in 1928. At its head is slick Lawrence Marx, whose most colorful achievement was the sale, last summer, of 30,000 shares of common stock. On the New York Curb, the stock was rising from...