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This strikes me as an unusually foolish business. The Council's resolution is unsound in theory and unworkable in practice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hits Anti-Bias Resolutions | 1/19/1950 | See Source »

...unsound because if people enjoying each other's company want to meet and to ask others to join them, it is neither the Student Council's nor anyone else's business to say who they should be, or why, as long as they are not a harmful organization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hits Anti-Bias Resolutions | 1/19/1950 | See Source »

...Dependence on subsidies or production payments in lieu of a fair market price as a method of achieving [a fair farm] income is unsound and would impose a burden on the whole American economy through tax liability which would raise all costs of production-thereby lowering purchasing power and ultimately leading to a lower standard of living for the rank & file of consumers. [It] would place farmers at the mercy of congressional appropriations for their income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: No, Thanks | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...feel that the present football policy at Harvard is unsound, for both financial and prestige reasons. If the administration continues its present policies, we will merely continue to pile up $100,000 deficits and losses to powerhouse teams around the country...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, Donald Carswell, and Bayard Hooper, S | Title: Harvard Football: Which Way Out? | 11/25/1949 | See Source »

...Lose the War." Navymen had said strategic "mass" bombing by the Air Force's B-36 was militarily unsound, even immoral. Bradley gave them a direct unequivocal reply. Strategic bombing, he said, "is our first-priority retaliatory weapon," and the B-36 is the best heavy bomber in the U.S. arsenal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Incorrigible & Indomitable | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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