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Word: soundingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feels, however, that he has overcome this, and he explains it in this way: When, for example, he is introduced to someone, he immediately collects the sounds that they make and creates a sound image out of them. In other words, while most people judge a man by his clothes, by the way he carries himself, by his physical characteristics, Templeton judges him by the sounds he makes while he is walking and by the various intonations of his voice. While Mr. X is ordinarily classified as a rather dull, innocuous commuter, Templeton would rate him as a very flat...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 4/21/1939 | See Source »

This at first may sound a little far-fetched, but think it over, and you will see that there is no reason why the oral sense can't be developed just as fully as the ocular--why judgment by sound isn't just as good as by sight. Naturally it takes a very keen ear and a certain natural sense of psychology to do this, but Templeton can and does...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 4/21/1939 | See Source »

...unanimous vote the CRIMSON board last night decided to exclude all tutoring school advertising "until such time as the tutoring schools are restricted to functions not inconsistent with sound educational practice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Inaugurates Campaign to Eliminate the Tutoring Schools | 4/18/1939 | See Source »

Such human characteristics have endeared President Dennison to his 2,700 employes, who also thank him for progressive management. He was among the first industrialists to try employe representation, has only one vote on a management board consisting of eight employes and himself. He has written several sound books on management, has long sponsored a system of unemployment insurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: NEW STICKUM | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

When experts write about public opinion, they usually sound like Gertrude Stein. When is public opinion public opinion and when is it private opinion publicly expressed? In Public Opinion, Professor Albig offers a simple definition-opinion, he says, is some expression on a controversial point; public opinion is a result of the interactions of persons in any type of group. A typical, professional volume, piling up to 493 pages, including essays on language, propaganda, newspapers, the Gallup Poll and innumerable quotations to plug holes in the argument, Public Opinion is nevertheless more interesting than most such books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Polls Apart | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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