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Word: soundingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down to a group of campaign strategists, has entered the state on Forbes's behalf. If Forbes wins, and most experts feel the race will be very close, it will be due to this national support, for he has not offered the voters anything substantially better than Meyner's sound administration...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey., | Title: Much Ado About Nothing | 11/1/1957 | See Source »

While ascending into the ethereal sublimities of intellectual adventure, the Harvard undergraduate's physical means of existence is crumbling beneath his palate. Artistically enticing as the preceeding may sound, the shocking fact is that the undergraduate's teeth are decomposing even as he reads Gibbon, Spengler, and Toynbee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Eye for an Eye | 10/29/1957 | See Source »

...trend. It was easy enough to be amusing about beer, but hard to "soft sell" a product such as aspirin or laxatives. The public must be shown what misery results when these aids are not employed, and consequently, schematic diagrams of digestive systems are exhibited with appropriate sound effects...

Author: By Charles I. Kingson, | Title: Idiot Box | 10/29/1957 | See Source »

...that "free enterprise is the essence." One of his most vivid memories is the postwar inflation, which wiped out his parents' savings, became so bad that it took a wheelbarrow full of marks to buy a suit of clothes. The experience made him a devout believer in the sound mark. His wife still remembers their marriage in 1923 as taking place "ten days after the currency reform," which replaced the worthless mark with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Engineer of a Miracle | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...until its government has developed the basic facilities of an industrial economy: roads, harbors, railways, communications, schools, reservoirs, power plants. In fact, since private capital is seldom available for such projects, the government must foot the bill. Yet, when these industrial foundations have been laid, the backward nations with sound plans to develop their industries can then mobilize foreign and domestic investment and eventually achieve a free enterprise economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capitalist Challenge: PATHS OF PROGRESS | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

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