Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dignify this service by calling it the 'Chemical Corps' is, in my judgment, contrary to a sound public policy...
While Belgian peasants harkened one morning to the sombre ringing of bells, Londoners were being wakened by the sound of guns. From Hyde Park and the Tower of London 41 thundering discharges shook the metropolis and Londoners hardly turned a hair. They barely recalled the 23rd anniversary of Britain's going to war but they were well aware of the 37th anniversary of another event, the birth of a girl child- her ninth-to the amiable and motherly Countess of Strathmore & Kinghorne. It was the birthday of England's new Queen Elizabeth...
Recently they wrote 40 speeches for inarticulate businessmen who wanted to sound off against President Roosevelt's Supreme Court plan. Inflation was another gold-mine subject for Ghostwriters Bureau. When Messrs. Baer & Woods first set up shop, businessmen were chary about hiring their services, usually conducted negotiations from home or on private stationery. Now Business has accepted ghostwriting as established practice, so long as names of clients are not made public. For the benefit of the more fastidious of these, Baer & Woods describe themselves as "clarificators...
...margin is not yet distressingly slim (13% for the June quarter).* Gloomed Mr. Sloan: "Much might be said as to the effect of increased selling prices on the course of the recovery movement........ . The hope might be expressed, however, that sooner or later the fact will be recognized that sound and desirable progress, reflecting a higher standard of living, never can be made possible by the policy of arbitrarily increasing wages, shortening hours and reducing efficiency, without regard to the effect on real prices. Higher real wages and shorter hours-highly desirable objectives-are a by-product of technological advance...
...throughout the stubbled country to the south the clattering of harvesters and combines made a rejoicing sound. In some spots there had been drought, in others black rust, in still others grasshoppers. But the harvest was the U. S.'s fattest in six long years-a billion-dollar crop. After satisfying its own needs of some 650,000,000 bu. and adding 35,000,000 bu. to its depleted carry-over reserve, the U. S. would have perhaps 165,000,000 bu. to toss into the breadbaskets of Europe...