Word: deepest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that will at once command unusual attention and leave him freer than ever to expatiate upon the human spectacle. In The Outline of History he had to deal dutifully with many matters of transient and undisputed consequence. Moreover, history is but the gradient leading up to Mr. Wells' deepest concern, the future of mankind after its scientific emancipation. In his pseudo-scientific novels, several of which he laid in that far future, he felt the cramp of plot and character relations. So while he calls his latest creation* a novel, it stays little closer to the usual kind...
...disregard the sport. Their imperative is the stuff that embryos, not dreams, are made of. For "individuality" they are content with the potential differentiations of the chromosomes. Such biologist talk as the following will strike home its full weight only upon the percipient mind: "The ability to form the deepest and finest bond with one of the opposite sex is a highly specialized and delicate ability...
...around athletes who could hardly read a newspaper were put through college at the expense of the Alumni Association and given high grades in English and Sacred Studies. When the Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association was formed, such chicanery was already fast vanishing. Last week, with the deepest humiliation, Yale University notified Harvard that there could be no freshman crew race this year. Six members of the Yale freshman eight had cheated in examinations at their training quarters at Gales Ferry, Conn.† They had taken no precautions, their papers were all alike, and the Student Council inflicted the usual penalty...
...might even pass over the intrepidity of an attempted explanation of American economic history in terms of a mysterious religious instinct that inheres in residence on this continent. But the unabashed hardihood of justifying the whole past and present of American industrialism by making it one with the deepest spiritual feelings of the people--especially at a time when that industrialism has just flowered in one of the most insidious assaults on democratic government that our history records--ought surely to be more than this nation can stomach. Mr. Coolidge's religion, apparently, is of a piece with that...
Vigilant U. S. patriots felt the deepest marrow of their bones chill with affrighted horror last week at despatches reporting that the notorious German Captain Karl Boy-Ed was seeking a visa to enter...