Word: soundly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sound is the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, convening and shuffling its eyewitness testimony. The other is Harvard's bankers, counting out at last the dollar bills long ago promised for Quadrangle renovations...
...Leaving aside the relative merits of a sound knowledge of computer programming in the post-PC era, I would submit that the knowledge required to pass the computer Quantitative Reasoning Requirement is of absolutely no practical use. I suspect, for instance, that NASA has already learned how to program a computer to countdown from a given number, and print "Blast-off!" in flashing letters on its computer screens...
...quickly graduated to Broadway musicals, then in 1930 was brought to Hollywood as a contract player for Warner Bros., the studio that had ushered in the talkies a few years earlier with The Jazz Singer. Many silent-film stars' careers were destroyed by the triumph of sound; Cagney's was ensured by it. He was one of the first actors to grab an audience by sending dialogue special delivery, with a style of high-speed utterance that could animate even the most inert exchanges...
...They were lovers once, and become lovers again when she returns home for a vacation. Will he accept her invitation to join her in the jet streams and write her captions? Or is he going to stay put and continue the good fight to keep his small pond ecologically sound, his nice nuclear family unsplit...
...others described the bomb dropped from a helicopter as an "entry device." Aside from the fact that some cop appears to have loaded the bomb with extra explosive above and beyond the call of sanity, the idea of using a small explosive just to gain entry is strategically sound. If it had worked, if it had dislodged the armored bunker on top of the row house, the whole thing might have ended a swift, successful anti-terrorist strike...