Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play the stereo recordings monaurally over his present equipment, the listener will need only a stereo cartridge, which he can now buy in the $4-to-$10 price range. But if he wants true stereo sound he will need a second amplifier and speaker. The whole setup could easily cost him less than some hi-fi rigs, since stereo achieves impressive sound even with small speakers and low-powered amplifiers...
Jones: Now you sound like you've been hobnobbing with those fellows over on FORTUNE. That's a pretty fancy phrase. But you may be right. What worries me-and I'm not a businessman-is that if this disenchantment continues long enough, we might get a sincere depression. I think we need to watch the next few months with a good deal of nervousness...
Smith: True. And the depression-or recession-is a good excuse for a lot of political-economic folly-farm subsidies, xenophobic trade measures and things like that. What we really need, to use a businessman's trite expression, is a truly sound economy-growth and expansion, yes, but tempered with soundness. And we need to have it sound at every level-at the level of Government, at the level of the corporation, and at the level of the individual family budget...
...weeping in one's chest. A weeping that could not be wept." At novel's end, with a profound sense of release shared by boy and reader alike, the boy is ready to abandon his grey world of failing sight for the luminous realm of pure sound...
...they find that Euclid's axioms cannot themselves be proven; but in the disappointment of the eleven-year old Russell, Wood imagines he sees already adumbrated three volumes of the Principia Mathematica. Nor are his repeated references to Russell as "the greatest logician since Aristotle" as indubitable as they sound; Frege would be a more likely contender for this distinction, and Goedel perhaps an equal...