Word: unsounded
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...reference to evolution), whipped up support among Georgia's Baptist clergy, finally forced the school to try five men on the charge. Mercer eventually dismissed the cases, but not before admonishing 75-year-old Dr. John D. Freeman, a world-famous Baptist leader, for using a theologically "unsound" textbook. That summer Dr. Freeman quietly retired from Mercer. Says a professor: "It broke...
...Another problem is what the schools should teach. Many industrialists and union leaders want faster action in turning out men to run specific machines in specific plants. Others argue that in the long run such specialization is unsound. A student might be trained to operate one plant's complex machine, but where does he go when the job and the machine become obsolete? Retraining such workers is hard because they often have to change from a physical skill to a technical skill. In this technological age, what is needed, says Dr. Maurice F. X. Donohue, dean of the University...
...critics, granting the above, might allege that this process will create unemployment in Massachusetts and is therefore unsound. However, a moment's consideration will reveal that, in the initial stages at least, employment will be increased. Dismantling the various buildings is a large task, reasonable care being taken so as not to endanger incipient wildlife, and the holes must be dug deep to deposit the remains of buildings and other accoutrements of present Massachusetts civilization: We do not happily contemplate rediscovery of this phase of life by future generations. Displaced biologists will aid in marshalling wild animals and planting trees...
Joining with Mrs. Newman was Rep. Freyda Koplow of Brookline, who opposed the "sale of public park land for private purposes." Professional people have declared the bill unsound and the MTA has taken no stand on the issue, Mrs. Koplow maintained. "We should not sell the land for the benefit of John Briston 'Stilts' Sullivan...
Aside from stacks of unread pamphlets, federal civil-defense programs for coping with a nuclear attack on U.S. cities have so far produced little more than a warning system. And even that warning system, warned a report buzzing through the honeycomb of the Pentagon last week, is "basically unsound...