Word: unsound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brothers in arithmetic, they proceeded to take apart the New Deal's fiscal bookkeeping, subject its parts to scrutiny and discard them, one after another, as unsound, inaccurate, misleading...
...money to pay off the debt. It is in fact treating the repay ments as income and spending them. "If the subtraction of recoverable assets from the gross debt is valid," wrote Editor Moley, "then the Treasury's handling of these receipts is, to use a charitable word, unsound. . . . Democratic orators should refrain from leading their listeners to believe that $8,000,000,000 is the total in crease in the national debt...
...chemical, but biological. She couldn't give her husband a baby, so decided to give him a chance with somebody else. His not wanting that chance didn't make any difference. This is all very well, except that the solution as presented on the stage is biologically unsound, as at least every woman in the audience must have noticed...
...strength will influence the future strategy of the Democrats remains to be seen. If they do not deceive themselves, it will. It seemed to thoughtful people that the warlike note struck in Philadelphia, which could only be interpreted as the assurance of a continuance of Leftist reform, was unsound politically because the country was temporarily tired of reform. The Gallup poll provides impartial evidence to support the wisdom of that judgment...
...clearing house committee of the New York Clearing House, or its chairman, as such, has no power to bind member banks to a guaranty of the deposits of an unsound member. Such authority is not conferred expressly or implied by membership in the association...