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Word: soundingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME'S ear, a trimotored airplane, colliding with a pole, breaking apart in mid-air and striking the ground, makes noise. As near as TIME and the English alphabet could catch the sound, it was whop, crack and smash. Do other readers agree with Writer de Lany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 13, 1937 | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

...Roosevelt met Governor Landon, this was the genial advice which he gave his rival in the Presidential campaign. (Last week, President Roosevelt commemorated the occasion by going fishing himself-not in the river Potomac, because he had repaired to Hyde Park-but on the yacht Potomac, in Long Island Sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Fair and Fishing | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

...veto, however, would have brought down on the President's head the anger of both growers and refiners. After meditating last week at Hyde Park, he decided that discretion was the better part of principle-simultaneously signed the Sugar Bill and denounced it, indignantly insisting that a sound measure had been "seriously impaired in its value by the inclusion of a provision designed to legalize a virtual monopoly in the hands of a small group of seaboard refiners." He added: "I am approving the bill with what amounts to a gentleman's agreement that the unholy alliance between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Fair and Fishing | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

...because of these considerations, Mr. District Attorney, that I feel that the exercise of a sound discretion must turn in favor of the admission of prisoner to bail and I accordingly grant his application...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Valjean in Elizabethtown | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

...athlete, was expected to dominate it.* Admittedly he could beat any man at his specialty. Question was: could he beat a horse? Forthwith he was matched against Tommy Roberts, a prize cavalry horse in the light hunter (jumping) class. U. S. Army qualifications for such a horse : must be sound, five years old, 15 hands high. Distance: 120 yds., Tommy Roberts to jump high hurdles. Towns to jump low hurdles. Because a horse has a long stride, they were to use only five hurdles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Hurdler v. Jumper | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

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