Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...specific recommendations, countermanding sound Court decisions, indicate, that the Association--though not without stormy debate--has allowed itself to be bullied by a committee apparently stacked with rightwing, witch-hunting elements. Each of the five legislative proposals, if enacted, would have the effect of reinitiating a segment of the anti Communist panic campaign of the early...
...second plan, essentially a modification of the first, envisions a voluntary "House Honors" program for those non-Honors Seniors who nevertheless wish to continue some form of tutorial. The plan assumes that a large portion of non-Honors students, often with sound reasons, simply do not want to take up the burden of extended research in some narrow, particular field, but still do not desire the anonymity of large courses. These groups would be organized on a House basis, with certification of "House Honors" placed on the degree...
Striking about four miles from the city limits, it damaged eight homes, toppled KXLW's 385-ft. radio transmitting antenna. With the heavy, rushing sound of a thundering locomotive, it rolled into the city, tossed KTVI's 575-ft. TV tower across the roofs of two apartment buildings, crushed the second floor of a four-family house, ripped off part of the roof of a sports arena, uprooted trees. It mangled a Ferris wheel in an amusement park, then slanted northeast-straight into the city's center. There, in a 3-sq.-mi. sector, years...
...darkness to the weed-grown bottom of the 20-ft.-deep moat. Against a stone wall, he invariably refuses a blindfold, asks permission to command the firing squad standing six paces away. He asks the squad to aim for the heart, avoid the face. "Fire!" he orders. His final sound is an involuntary shout as the bullets' impact knocks breath through his vocal cords. After fingerprinting, the body is turned over to relatives for burial...
...Dana L. Farnsworth, Director of University Health Services, explained yesterday that the aim of the final study is "to learn as much as possible about the pyscho-social development of the college undergraduate," and that it could aid the University by pointing the way toward the development of "sound pressures for excellence...