Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...response to the demand of the Union for a conference, Mr. Knudson, the Executive Vice President of General Motors, replied that collective bargaining must be met with the plant managers. This is ridiculous. Although it is a sound principle of industrial relations to settle all disputes as close to the source of the dispute as possible, there are many issues in every corporation which can be settled only by a conference with the top management. Furthermore, these issues are likely to be the very ones which are of the most concern to the workers Mr. John L. Lewis is correct...
...whole sky is busy with day. Down below, battalions of grey light are marching over blackness and lights alike. My wing tips extend over the Atlantic and the Sound. Blanked out by my fuselage is the Island. I must go home. I am getting tired with deep breathing. Turn about to the West. Throttle down. More heat to the carburetor...
...Committee is opposed to post-season football games of all descriptions, including so-called 'bowl games,' feeling they have no part in the athletic programs of the colleges. We believe this to be so because such games serve no sound educational ends and such promotions merely trade upon intercollegiate football for commercial purposes...
...Tarantella, an Arthur Schwartz tune called Seal It With a Kiss and, for the inevitable climax on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera, the Una voce poco fa aria from The Barber of Seville, in which she turns loose the fastest high C yet released on a Hollywood sound track. All these correspond to the school figures of cine-musicomedy. The real pyrotechnics of That Girl from Paris come when Diva Pons puts classical touches on The Blue Danube to a background of swing jazz...
...novel there are faults; in fact many errors of judgment. Considering the difficulty under which she labored, the metamorphosing of a nineteenth-century story into a vehicle that will appeal to the calloused audience of today, as a whole it is a creditable job. To make polished sentiment sound convincing to a sentiment-hating public is not easy. At first Miss Jerome starts off on the wrong foot by encouraging the audience to laugh at the florid language, and then later depending on it to grasp the drama when the same language is used in tense moments. But in spite...