Word: unsounded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...turned down a law providing income tax cuts for middle and upper-income groups in Germany. The Germans argued that lower taxes would bring a higher percentage of honest returns. U.S. experts insisted that this was "like bribing a man to be honest." The U.S. experts also condemned as unsound a tax exemption for profits plowed back into business expansion; they were afraid this might result in expansion of what they considered the wrong industries...
Thousands of other Britons sought spring on the Continent, which they regard as economically unsound and politically untouchable. For the long Easter weekend, a Continent-bound plane left British airfields every five minutes. In April's opening week there were 8,000 such escapist flights from England...
...precise, monocled German psychiatrist attempted to convince three U.S. judges-Fred Cohn, John Speight and Herman Elegant-that Yvette was of unsound mind. Immaculate in morning coat and pinstriped trousers, Professor Karl Kleist testified that Mrs. Madsen was reacting to a deep-seated persecution complex when she shot her husband for laughing at her Brooklynese. "As far as I am informed," explained the professor, "this is the dialect of the common people. Since it revealed Mrs. Madsen's common origin, she felt insulted...
...Massachusetts Turnpike Commission today reported to the Legislature as "economically unsound and financially unwise" the proposed construction of a $60,000,000 tell express highway from the Connecticut line across the state to New Hampshire...
...what statements, we wonder, does Mr. Hoover have in mind that are "so untrue and legally unsound" that he is forced to conclude "they were motivated for the purpose of confusing the public?" Mr. Hoover's own statement asserts that "the FBI has less than 170 telephone taps in existence, confined to internal security cases throughout the entire United States and its possessions." The tapping of 170 telephones can involve the private conversations of a great many individuals who do not in the least imperil internal security. Moreover the Communications Act does not authorize the tapping of 170 telephones...