Word: unsound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seemed relatively plain. Bowing to a Federal Trade Commission order recently upheld by the Supreme Court (TIME, May 10), Universal Atlas Cement Co., largest cement maker in the U.S., last week grudgingly gave up its basing-point system of pricing. The company called the order "economically unsound and wrong," but it announced that it would sell henceforth at prices f.o.b. its plants; freight costs would be applied to the buyer's bill. Smaller cement companies promptly followed suit...
...have a better chance of winning than long shots, Bones seldom books Arcaro to ride any 15-to-1 horses. Many bettors put their money on whatever horse Arcaro is riding, thus shortening the odds further still; his reputation helps make a lot of false favorites. Arcaro is an unsound betting proposition. Eddie himself used to bet on his horses, says he gave it up because "I don't think you can beat them things." His income is about $2,300 a week, minus $340 for valet and agent fees. (Says Eddie: "After taxes, it's just a livin...
Besides the CRIMSON's stand in favor of the Marshall Plan, and the Communist-cum-Henry Wallace position against it, there is a third attitude. This attitude is that the Marshall Plan is good in purpose but unsound in design...
...novel that seemed to have all the correct ingredients. The Soviet hero returned home after two years in the U.S. to find Russia overwhelmingly more attractive. But the pontiffs weren't satisfied. Simonov's Smoke of the Fatherland, just out, was written off as "immature and unsound." The surprising reason: the Propaganda Committee of the Communist Patty said he hadn't proved his thesis...
...students did not object to the burden of finals with hour exams, the Administration never suspected a malfunction in the ancient plan. The early weeks in October were charted as a period of student adjustment to new courses and any scheduling of make-ups after hour exams appeared academically unsound. However, an informative sample of the eighty-nine men listed for re-examination this term indicates great dissatisfaction with the present system and vividly points up the need for a more equitable testing policy. Unanimously opposed to the current program, students would respond to any scheme that could relax...