Word: unsound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Restraint should be firm but not brutal or punitive. The widespread belief that a casualty in panic can be jolted out of his confusion by slapping him in the face or dousing him with cold water ... is unsound...
...face of the FTC report, the coffee industry flatly denies that it was responsible for coffee's dizzy spin. Brazilian growers argue that all early crop reports are bound to be inaccurate. To judge yesterday's estimate by today's knowledge, say the coffeemen, is both unsound and unfair. Furthermore, when viewed in terms of the expected 1954 harvest v. the actual harvest, the crop loss from frost was an estimated 2,932,700 bags, or 17%; FTC's 8% figure is based on a false comparison with 1953 production...
...about a complicated squabble among Soviet scientists. It began when V. C. Dmitriev, an adherent of Lysenko, applied to the Institute of Genetics for a doctor's degree. Pravda printed a letter from a nonparty man, Professor S. Stankov, who testified that Dmitriev's doctoral dissertation was "unsound...
...material of a "liberal" nature can be added to raise the program to an academic level approaching that of the rest of the College. Or the ROTC courses can be limited to practical material, with credit reduced and no pretense of intellectual equality. The first of these measures is unsound, for it would place too heavy a load on the student. The ROTC's are designed to turn out capable officer material for the services--to do this, they must continue to offer the factual material now in the courses. These facts represent the particular skills a military man must...
Amid charges of "unsound business policy," the price war on phonograph records entered its second week in the Harvard Square area...