Word: deepest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American scholars, who broadcast over short-wave station WRUL, said they were profoundly disturbed" by the news, and expressed deepest sympathy "to the families, to the friends, to the students" of the jailed Frenchmen...
...deepest deception the New Deal has practiced is in its use of national defense as a smoke screen behind which it plans to change the whole U.S. economy. The New Deal aim is to eliminate the small businessman as "an economic anachronism like the livery stable. . . . The answer that the New Dealers seek to our mechanized industrial civilization is big cartels, huge private monopolies managed by the State...
Kettle. In the deepest encirclement it ever attempted, the German Army had taken in not only Kiev but some 11,000 square miles to the east. Inside that kettle it claimed it had isolated no less than 50 divisions (more than the U.S. Army, two-thirds of the British Army, one-fifth of the German Army...
...François (Leclerc du Tremblay). At the age of eight, he begged to be sent away to boarding school "on the ground that he was being spoilt by his mother, qui en voulut faire un délicat." At ten he spoke Greek and Latin fluently, discussed "the deepest problems of metaphysics and religion" with a friend, aged twelve. When François's father died, the boy felt "a haunting sense of the vanity, the transience, the hopeless precariousness of merely human happiness. . . . While the religious wars lasted, France had to endure all the horrors of massacre...
FORTUNE'S deepest assumption is that man can use his foresight to forfend against the evils he faces. The U.S. has learned that modern war reaches into every part of a nation's life, that war changes its mind, changes its habits, takes the pots & pans away from the housewife, the silk stockings from the legs of the pretty girl across the street. But it remains to be seen whether Americans are prepared for the organized effort they must make if FORTUNE'S view of the U.S. task is right. If the editors are right the task...