Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Drive. He had not found it easy to study the writings of today's educators; most of them, says he, "sound as if they had been badly translated from the German." But out of them had emerged a picture in which Mortimer Smith found almost nothing he liked...
...Navy owned up last week to having an airplane, the Douglas D558-II Skyrocket, that has flown faster than sound "many times." Like the Air Force's pioneering XI, the Navy's Skyrocket is a rocket plane. But the X-I is intended to be dropped at high altitude from a B29, while the Skyrocket takes off under its own power. Inside its slim body is a powerful turbojet engine as well as the rocket motor. The turbojet is used first (with rocket assist at takeoff), to get the plane to high altitude. Then the rocket motor pushes...
...Brannan plan," said the Grange, "has totally undesirable political implications . . . That party which would promise farmers the largest bonus out of the Treasury would garner many votes not obtainable on ... an honest, sound platform. It would then become a race to see which party would promise most...
...concept of a combined drive is basically a sound one. Although the Council part of the combined drive is poorly handled, this should not prevent students from giving the emphasized charities the support these causes deserve...
...Valpey is not one of them. His plays were too complicated, caused too many fumbles, had no power plays, and failed lamentably in forward passing, and also in the fundamentals, particularly in blocking, interference and tackling. Obviously Valpey had too many trick plays instead of a few simple basically sound ones, well executed, and he failed to provide protection for his passers. I think Harvard material was well above average this year, and it is unfair to them to have to participate in such a lamentable season...