Word: sounded
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Democrats' Answer. The answers had a lovely sound. New York would have to hold a special mayoralty election at the same time as the elections for Governor and Senator. The Democrats could undoubtedly put a fresh, cooperative type of mayor into office. Better yet, they would stir up a big city vote, and with Tom Dewey already out of the gubernatorial race, might be able to re-elect Senator Herbert Lehman and put over their whole slate, from Governor on down...
...then came The Netherlands, Great Britain and France; still later came Germany and Italy. The one country which came to exploit and conquer Asia over land was Russia . . . The United States of America did not participate . . . The policy of the United States in the Far East was based on sound United Nations principles 50 years before these principles were embodied in the Charter of the United Nations...
...yachtsmen, a youngster old enough to sit still is old enough to learn to sail. On Long Island Sound, cruising ground of thousands of summer sailors, a boy or girl of ten is old enough to race his own boat in "midget" class (under 15 years) events. Last week the best of the midgets raced for the championship of the Sound, and the silver-crusted Scovill Cup which is emblematic...
...translation of the Psalms came out last week. The new Psalms, issued by the Roman Catholic Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, lacked the high literary shine of Msgr. Ronald Knox's version (TIME, March 24, 1947), but they often make the triple-translated renderings of the Catholic Douay Version* sound like a third-year Latin scholar reading at sight. Sample (Psalm...
...fact that there hasn't been an exposed radiator cap in at least 15 years," engines in front instead of in back "where [they] belong," six or eight cylinders when "four are enough for [180 m.p.h.] Indianapolis racing cars."* To the nostalgic Musselman, even modern advertising slogans sound "moronic" alongside some of the old ones: "Buy a Bates and Keep Your Dates," "Ride in a Glide Then Decide...