Word: unsounded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conibear read up on physics and experimented at night in his living room with a broom for an oar. He decided that the traditional Oxford style, in which oarsmen put their maximum power at the end of a long layback stroke, was not only unsound but uncomfortable. He taught a short stroke with a "sock" as the blade entered the water; the men were sitting upright at the end of the stroke, and ready for a quick recovery. In 1917, Hiram Conibear was killed (when he fell out of a cherry tree) but Washington crews went east year after year...
...House Committee in its letter to the Student Council Food Relief Committee seemed ill-advised. They had apparently forgotten that the foremost issue has been that underfed Europeans need sustenance and that it is worth some sacrifice on the part of better-nourished Americans to supply relief. Besides being unsound economically in supposing that one can have his cake and send it to Europe too, the position of the Lowell House Committee leaves room for doubts about its awareness of the food crisis...
...funds. Gus wants the state's finances run as efficiently as he runs his farm. When legislators start throwing money around, he unfailingly gets up and drawls: "I want the taxpayers at the crossroads to know that the state's fiscal affairs are being developed in an unsound condition...
When Ruiz Galindo and men like him talk of tariffs, they reflect Mexico's industrial youth. Says Ruiz Galindo: "To have freedom of commerce it is indispensable first to have commerce." Therefore Mexico, he argues, must protect its growing industry, even if protection is theoretically unsound economics...
...Considered Proposal. In the beginning all had divergent views. At times the thinking that went on aloud was "so painful" that only the tactful intervention of two secretaries with coffee could break the tension. Discarding this as inadequate and that as unsound, they slowly sweated through to unanimous agreement about what was most workable...