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Most of the college golfers have a very sound style, thanks to their Coaches, but there are many of them who played in bad form. A very unsound style frequently works well when the player is youthfully supple and resourceful...

Author: By Charles HANN Jr., | Title: College Golf To, Here To Stay, Says Former National Amateur Champion | 4/25/1940 | See Source »

...purchase plan† the natural price might be 10 to 15? per oz., which would permit the lowliest proletarian to own complete sets of sterling tableware. Finally he could stand pat on the wise remark of Michigan's Senator Prentiss Brown: "If we are going to follow an unsound policy, then let us confine it to our own citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hi-Yo, Silver! | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...will left the principal of the estate in trust and one quarter of the income was to be given to M. I. T., another to Harvard and the rest to charitable institutions. The will is now being contested by some of the heirs who claim that Mrs. Adams was "unsound in mind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Takes Part in Probating Of Adams Grant | 2/6/1940 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Reverse | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: War Machines | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

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