Word: unsound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficulties in debate, said he had trouble answering Mr. Noel Baker because "he is always trying to push the Government to go a little further in its statements than I think it ought to go, and it puts me in the position, in refusing to put my foot on unsound ground, that I seem to be willing to go less far than actually...
...year-oldsters Federal pensions of $50-60 per month, financed by sales taxes to produce $4-6,000,000,000 piled on top of all other U. S. taxes. Chairman Doughton of the Ways & Means Committee delivered the official excoriation, using the following adjectives: unequal, unjust, unsound, fanatical, intolerable, inequitable, cockeyed, crackpot. Dr. Townsend's solace: three years ago the House had him sentenced for contempt (Franklin Roosevelt pardoned him) ; now his planacea put members on a piping political pan. Bob Doughton & Co. hastened next day to vote, in Committee, to recommend raising from $15 to $20 the maximum...
...extermination. Its weakness is a traditional reliance on Schrecklichkeit (frightfulness) which-though it won at Munich-is apt to backfire by stiffening instead of breaking opponents' morale. The modern German theory of victory by Blitzkrieg (lightning war) is untried and, in the opinion of many experts, unsound. Further, if Germany plans to carry war deep into Russian territory in case of Soviet participation, old Moscow Generals January and February (alias Cold and Hunger) will probably ruin Chief of High Command Wilhelm Keitel's reputation even as they ruined Napoleon's in 1812. But whatever their failings...
...published this week was the most challenging analysis of accounting in many a day-Truth in Accounting* by C.P.A. Kenneth MacNeal, treasurer of Alden Park Corp., Philadelphia real-estate concern. His thesis: "The great majority of contemporary certified financial statements must necessarily be untrue and misleading due to the unsound principles upon which modern accounting methods are based." Some of his examples: A man invests $30,000 in 1,000 shares of General Motors at 30. The stock rises, he sells it at 60, and reinvests in 1,000 shares of International Harvester at 60. His twin puts...
Ever since the $2 raise granted November 24, 1937, the dining-hall system has been on an unsound financial footing, and the continued existence of the Temporary Student Employment Plan is in serious danger as a result...