Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal. To approach it, he turned to the question of NRA: "Overproduction, underproduction and speculation are three evil sisters who distill the troubles of unsound inflation and disastrous deflation. . . . Sober second thought confirms most of us in the belief that the broad objectives of the National Recovery Act were sound. We know now that its difficulties arose from the fact that it tried to do too much. For example, it was unwise to expect the same agency to regulate the length of working hours, minimum wages, child labor and collective bargaining on the one hand and the complicated questions...
...Monarchs," made up like the graduation service by Sister Aimee, in which accordion, saxophone and bell music was interspersed with appearances of Pharaoh, Herod, Attila, Napoleon, Edward VIII, Darwin, Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, Uncle Sam and Jesus Christ, the latter arriving before the massed cast in a turbulent burst of sound and color to demonstrate His superiority to the other rulers and to inform the audience that He would return again...
...from the point of view of sound business administration periodic changes--say once or twice a year--in the duties of those who patrol the college has everything in its favor. Unless all the night porters are familiar with every nook and cranny of the University, their usefulness in protecting the property and population is seriously impaired. With their simple routine functions to perform, the force's efficiency and morale is stiffened and braced by a change of outlook and terrain. Furthermore, the position of night patrolman at any one house should not become a vested interest, for watchmen...
...sound of tinkling glass followed and no light wines and vermouth proceeded to trickle over the area in front of the good deans' offices...
Featured by sound truck campaigning and a much-appreciated "belly" scene in which the whale addressed Jonah, who was residing inside the mammal's own stomach, the American premiere of Bridie's "Jonah and the Whale" was estimated by evities in both Boston and trade papers as the Dramatic Club's outstanding performance in recent years...