Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short a yardstick for this type of investing, observing "The successful realization of its [Mayflower's] objectives requires the averaging of profits and losses over a period of years, and a substantial portion of the profits of one year must be available to absorb losses of other years. Sound business judgment does not permit the annual distribution of all earnings...
...Transamerica battle is supposed to have burned on in the Giannini mind, as other unforgiven deeds of other Giannini enemies always did. Opportunity to reach across the Bay was opened by a widow, one of Central's founders, who turned over her chief asset, 2,314 shares in sound Central Savings, to the receiver for Central National to help make up her double liability on the stock of that closed bank. On a bid of $117.50 per share the U. S. Comptroller of the Currency awarded the stock to Banker Giannini...
Grey Owl's account makes these kittens sound like something out of a Walt Disney cartoon. One always walked erect, "staggering around like a decrepit old man." Another discovered he could ride on his mother's flat tail, would catch a ride whenever Jelly Roll waddled around the camp. Sometimes three kittens would ride, one passenger standing on the tail with one leg and marking time with the other on the floor, like a child scooting along on a Kiddie-Kar. Jelly Roll would pay no attention whatsoever...
...floor. One member of the group was Exchange President Charles Richard Gay, another Alfred Emanuel Smith, who was there to make a plea for New York's United Hospital Fund. Clerks were still yelling, messengers scurrying, tickers clacking. When Mr. Smith was introduced to the brokers even the sound-amplifying system could scarcely be heard above...
...realize that Laughton and Korda can fizzle. In the first place the story is a mere chronological biography possessing practically no dramatic force, and in the second place Laughton's magnificent voice is toned down for at least half the picture to a dismal half-whisper that resembles the sound of a fly trying to crash through a screen door. It is not a great sin for such as Laughton and Korda to fail; the evil lies in refusing to admit the failure and claiming for it new heights of cinematic excellence. It must be said in justice to "Rembrandt...