Word: unsound
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...financial policy which Harison represents is unsound-(a) The tax on whiskey and tobacco should be retained; (b) the tariff on necessaries should be reduced, especially upon raw materials; (c) the Republican tariff bill is sectional, discriminating against the South, is in the interest of capitalists and monopolists, and fosters trusts.- Minority report on Senate tariff bill, Congressional Record...
...desirable candidate for renomination. There are many thoroughly suitable men, Sherman, Lincoln, Hawley and Gresham, for instance. The Republicans can no longer bring their stock arguments into play. New questions have come to the front. Mr. Blaine has repeatedly allied himself with the advocates of undesirable measures. He is unsound on questions of currency, pensions and national appropriations. He is sometimes eulogized as a great statesman, but Cleveland, a comparatively new man in politics, beat him in a six months' campaign. Gentlemen, we owe a greater duty to the party of our principles than to the inordinate ambition...
...character in which the parson and squire could take part, they flourished. The tangible honor to be won rarely consisted of more than a belt, but as the exercise became popular the prizes increased in value, and though for a time the wrestlings flourished, doing so upon an unsound basis, a decadence set in, and gradually, though surely, they fell to the position they hold at the present time.- [Land and Water...
...Windsor, England, the insane American student, Hare, has been acquitted of the charge of petty fraud, but has been detained as a person of unsound mind...
Scoville has petitioned for a new trial of Guiteau, but Corkhill and Davidge pronounce the grounds to be unsound. It is thought that Guiteau will be sentenced to be hanged today...