Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many thousands of pounds of the Foreign Office's "secret funds"-money for the spending of which the law not only does not require but forbids any detailed accounting to Parliament. Beyond all this, Sir Robert, himself, is recognized as a brilliant, persuasive and what the British call "sound" man, at whose London house the Prime Minister of the day and even the King are glad to lunch or dine. It was no wonder, therefore, that two small news items about Sir Robert last week provided official Britain with its chief topic of holiday conversation...
...student of philosophy in general the first part alone of this undertaking makes the volume an important contribution to sound interpretations of the French philosopher. Conscious of the vagueness which surrounds the use of the word "intuition" in contemporary literature, Mr. Szathmary carefully delineates the meaning of this term in Bergson's philosophy: "In the act of intuition there is an internal response, which arises from the direct feeling of the qualities of an object...
...Harvard Engineering Society will present a sound motion picture entitled "Heat and Its Control" tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock in Pierce...
Latest radio dispatches last night revealed that Richard W. Heurtley, Jr., bold adventurer of the Class of 1940, had been sighted by a Coast Guard cutter paddling his canoe in the rough waters off Rocky Point in the Long Island Sound...
...would be money to cover the situation. It was a brilliant idea, worthy of the high ideals of material civilization; the family embraced it quickly, and the Vagabond was bundled off to be examined by a doctor. It was a principle of the insurance company that an individual be sound in body before he receive a policy...