Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This panic has resulted in what educators call "the new philosophy of education," which is summarized in the seemingly sound hypothesis that "we are teaching students, not subjects...
...clearly felt to be the prime consequence of Russia's celestial showpiece-the demonstration that Russia was no longer the inferior of the U.S. and could no longer be treated like one. The Western disarmament proposals "are conditions of the strong for the weak." he complained. "They sound something like an ultimatum . . . Mr. Eisenhower tries to deal with us as with his satellites . . . But one cannot deal with us in that...
...unattainable.... It is the very tree of life to him who finds it. Its ways are the ways of pleasantness and its paths all lead to peace, to happiness, to the secret of life itself." The actors deserve no little credit for making this sort of twaddle sound much less unlikely on the screen than it looks in print...
...defense, thus far the strength of the team, enters the game with regulars in sound shape, but lacking reserves, who seem to have melted away with injuries just as the linemen recovered. Halfbacks Marshall Schwarz, Tony Oberschall, and John Felstiner, improving steadily with each game, will lack the aid of reserves Charlie Steele and Pete Erskine, who hobble and cough with an injured ankle and the flu, respectively...
...Berkeley, Calif.) has caught a few authentic echoes of small-town speech. She quotes Dostoevsky to the effect that "there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome" than "a memory of childhood." But then, Dostoevsky never knew Kathleen Winsor, who makes childhood seem grubby, and sex sound like a bore...