Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these charges were being prepared and delivered the real issues took second place, although the candidates did present vague, nearly similar programs. Both recognized the central problem: to reduce the city payroll, and to institute sound, efficient accounting and auditing methods...
...from some of these institutions, Collins has suggested that, without altering their tax-exempt status, they should pay to the city a "donation in lieu of taxes," similar to the procedure that both Harvard and M.I.T. follow in Cambridge. But this proposal is not as simple as it may sound, for, while the city is poor, so are the colleges...
Whatever the twenty-two defendants' legal sins may be, it is extremely doubtful that their silence about the meeting two years ago is among them. The indictment stems not from any sound legal basis, but from a good and wholesome desire to get some disreputable characters out of circulation. There is little or no case against the "convention" delegates, especially when government officials confess that it still has no conception at all of what was discussed at Apalachin...
...this age of sound trucks and stickers, it is unlikely that many in Cambridge will be entirely unaware by Tuesday that an election campaign is going on. But it seems even more unlikely that many people will have much idea of the issues of the 1959 campaign. Even those people actively involved in the campaign might be hard-pressed to tell you what issues are involved, and if there are unexpected surprises in the outcome, it will be still hard to tell what policy has triumphed...
MacLeish distinguished between the sound and sense of words, pointing out that only a few words in any language (like "buzz" or "hum") have a sound which fits their meaning...