Word: unsound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Examples of unsound argument abound in Professor Hershey's article. For example, he says that the Japanese people are reacting to new and changed economic conditions; but who can draw the conclusion from this that there is no reason to believe that the Japanese people are suffering from density of population in the country...
Beware of Unsound Opinions...
...calamities that have come upon their country as Lincoln said of the woes of the Civil War, "True and just are thy judgements altogether." We can add with him. "Let us judge not that we be not judged"; or rather let us beware that by harboring in our minds unsound opinions we fall not into like condemnation...
...Your theory of punishment as a deterrent is unsound. If it were the true theory we should hand all criminals as the most effective deterrent possible. The true theory is, we believe, that society feels it has been wronged--the social consciousness revolts--and demands restitution. A modern example of this is the lynching parties of our Southern States. Certainly the Anglo-Saxon "hue and cry" was the result of a society demanding retribution rather than one seeking to deter others...
...failed, as it was bound to fall. It is unsound in theory, unworkable in practice, and as un American as any political device that has yet been suggested by anybody. This system has invited, indeed has almost compelled, huge expenditures on the part of those who have fallen victims to its solicitations, and yet it has proved nothing except that the great mass of Republican voters await with entire confidence the unprejudiced and untrammeled discussion by the delegates to the National Convention...