Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obvious step will be the affording to each nation of a sufficient gold base through a central agency for the establishment of a sound national currency. . . . Obviously, also, a large portion of the fund would be used for compensation in relation to the transfer to the 'have-not' nations, large and small, of the necessary sources of raw material. . . . The disbursement of the fund would be linked to progressive demobilization and demilitarization...
...There is an enormous difference," explains Director Hanson, "between music that is well-knit and sounds like Hell, and music that doesn't sound the way the composer intended it to sound. The first is competent musicianship; the second is not. . . . A competent composer deserves at least one hearing before an audience...
...people representing the supersophisticated product of intensive selection and long-continued evolution," Dr. Hooton proceeds to embark upon "a discussion which will arouse the ire of many an idealistic democrat with an inferiority complex and of all scientists who labor under the delusion that only negative findings are sound." Says...
...unrelated words and sentences, Critic Edmund Wilson has worked out the most intelligible interpretation of the book, supported by Joyce's own statement that, as Ulysses is a Dublin day, Finnegans Wake is a Dublin night. The long confused passages in which people change shape, the speeches that sound matter-of-fact but turn out to be gibberish, the flights, pursuits, embarrassing situations which are oddly taken for granted-all these are not mere plays on words or literary jokes; they are dreams...
...soft and sensitive cars. But whatever it was, he loved to watch them eat peanuts out of his hand, and do amazing tricks at the trainer's command. But as Billy seemed so restless, Vag moved on into the big arena, to see the real show. Just as the sound of music, cracking whips, pistol shots, and cannons came to his car, Billy plucked at his coat. "Gee, I don't feel so good. Let's sit down a while. I don't want to go in there yet." On the very threshold of the promised land, Vag found himself...