Word: unsounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corporate taxes paid during the war. The tax again made a rough sort of sense because the bulk of industry was mobilized and fared equally under EPT. But when EPT was slapped on again in 1950, even the tax's Fair Deal advocates admitted that it was unsound-although its very name made it politically popular. In a semi-mobilized economy, such a tax could not skim the profits from arms contracts without also spooning out the legitimate profits of consumer industries...
...organized some of the Southwest's most successful camp meetings (TIME, July 30, 1951), was especially shocked. Camp meetings, said he, represent "real, undented religion." He added: "If the Episcopal Church endorses the things Wright said in his address to the lawyers, I think they are fundamentally unsound in their belief and doctrine...
...argument is the old Air Force suspicion that the Navy is poaching on its area of strategic bombing. The Air Force is more & more convinced that strategic bombing offers the only way to win victory in the heart of Russia, that the carrier is a wasteful and militarily unsound offensive weapon for World War III. Among points made by the Air Force...
Your CrimEson, I mean CRIMSON, continues its expose by accusing Yale of "... Eager Striving." Is it unsound practice to "heel" the NEWS for eight weeks? Don't you Harvard boys believe in working for what you want? I don't mean to play the part of Joe McCarthy, but the CRIMSON might be renamed The Crimson Daily Worker. At Harvard, I gather no boy can auspiciously reap the rewards of his success...
...read beyond the headlines, he might have discovered that the CRIMSON did not imply that "it is unsound practice to heel the News for eight weeks... or to work for what you want." The CRIMSON emphasized that the heeling itself is not unsound, only the fact that many Yale men have only a perfunctory interest in the organization they are heeling, their real purpose for such extra curricular activity being ultimate memberships in a senior society. As President Griswold told the CRIMSON: "Down here we need to start doing things for their own sake, not for what they will lead...