Word: unsounded
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...only is the present system unsound in theory, it has also proven faulty in practice. Many students who could little afford the extra expense, have had to pay for their own hospitalization. House members, in one instance, were called upon to take up collections for a seriously injured player...
...conformity that immigrant scientists like Einstein and Fermi, men largely responsible for building the atomic bomb, came here to escape. In alienating foreign scientists, then, America may lose this fertile source of scientific excellence. Moreover, as scholars find greater respect in Europe than here, this policy is politically unsound...
Many unions fear that older workers who are on a pension would take lower pay and thus depress all wages. But the attitude is changing. C.I.O. President Walter Reuther now denounces compulsory retirement programs as "socially wrong and economically unsound." Actually, the enforced idleness of oldsters is estimated to cost the nation $5 billion a year in lost production, more than the annual cost of all industrial and governmental pension systems...
...Parsons gripped the dock rail tightly as the verdict was read: not guilty because of unsound mind at the time of the crimes. R.A.F. wives wept...
...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...