Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Incidentally, the Englishmen should get some kind of cheer. They brought over their tiny cars knowing they would be hopelessly outclassed, and drove a good steady sporting race. They also provided the prize sound effects of the day, making it sound like a real motor race. The opinion has been expressed that we should do as is generally done in Europe by providing a separate class for tiny engines or by giving them some sort of handicap...
...foreign affairs I do not propose to be a talkative President. But I do propose to appoint as Secretary of State a competent man grounded in sound American principles...
...Baseman Lou Gehrig of the World Champion New York Yankees offered himself to Hollywood film producers for the role of Tarzan, hitherto acted by Swimmers Johnny Weissmuller and Buster Crabbe. Dressing up in a leopard skin for Manhattan cameramen, Yankee Gehrig threw out a hairy chest, crowed: "It may sound like a screwy idea to you guys but I'm serious. . . . I've always hustled at everything I've taken up. ... I'd give it all I have. I'd even wrestle lions." Cornered by news hawks as he boarded the Queen Mary, "Tarzan" Weissmuller...
...sails in a Frost-bite Regatta with ten other college crows in the Charles River Basin at one o'clock Sunday. Edward B. Hutton '39, will tend the sheets in Fullerton's dinghy, while Chandler Hovey, Jr. '39, and James A. Rousmaniere '40, of local and Long Island Sound fame respectively, man a second boat...
Major issues of the campaign, it seems to me, are: (1) sound monetary and financial policies, (2) adjustment of the legislative program to practical administrative possibilities, (3) protection of the Civil Service, and (4) preservation of the independence of the legislative and judicial branches of the Federal government...