Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hawk-beaked Rightist Senator Léon Bérard of the Basses-Pyrenees Department entrained for Burgos from Paris. His trip, he and the French Foreign Office said, was unofficial, but there was no doubt that he had been sent by Premier Edouard Daladier's Government to sound out the possibility of establishing "friendly relations...
...Pianist Templeton moved on to Manhattan. Manhattanites liked his improvisations on any theme that was tossed up to him. His musical satires* floored them completely. Stoop-shouldered, solemn Templeton would sit at the piano and reproduce the sound of a whole Wagnerian opera, pounding out brass chords, yodeling out-of-tune soprano arias and throaty German tenor recitatives. From Wagnerian opera he would turn to Italian opera, lieder singing, Gilbert & Sullivan, the bedlam inside a music conservatory. Last week Pianist Templeton brought his improvisations and caricatures to Carnegie Hall, where they formed the dessert of a program of more conventional...
...Some of the conductors I have seen have got that excited with the music it looked as if they were having a fight with it. ... I think modern music is funny. It always sounds as if it did not take the composer long to make up. ... I liked the symbells very much as they gave off a very good tinkling sound. You could hear them in spite of all the noise. I had a good view of the Drummer...
...collaboration with them, the TIME Index of Business Conditions was worked out on these principles.* The final weighted average of accounting ratios is based on no assumed "normal." adjusted to no economists' idea of "long term trend." It is, in effect, simply a report on how sound business was last week, a subject which TIME considers news...
...investigation into the politics played in the last congressional election is still making headlines today, and although it is doubtless too much to expect that any really objective wisdom can be shown in such an atmosphere, one nevertheless hopes that before long Congress will evolve a workable, economically sound, program of old-age pensions...