Word: deepest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cooperation of countless individuals, most of whom were unaware of the broader significance of their actions. They unquestioningly accepted their part in the expansion of empire, the spreading of religion, or the development of science and industry." But with the exhaustion of the European tradition, those who had the deepest sense of it were paralyzed by its decay. "Genius felt itself frustrated, and failed to guide. . . . Europe passed into the hands of those who had deliberately renounced the influence of the old tradition and had thus escaped the paralysis of its decay...
Unlike Emerson, he applies scientific notions to life in a fashion that leaves ordinary readers with something of the feeling that the paper has been plastered on them, instead of on the wall. Yet the mere comparison with Emerson suggests the deepest difficulty that readers may find in Author Whyte's book...
Hale alone among the scientists of the world had the vision and the courage to plan an instrument for scientific research which startles the imagination, and which, in the hands of Dr. Hubble, Dr. Bowen and their colleagues, is certain to bring the solution of some of the deepest mysteries of the Universe. To us the Mount Palomar Observatory always will be the Hale Observatory...
...from the incense cedars; through the primitive underbrush pads an occasional mountain lion. But the summit of Palomar Mountain is one of the high points of the 20th Century. For there stands the dazzling new 200-inch telescope that will peer a billion lightyears* into space-man's deepest look at the unknown universe he lives...
...added ladle of soup, some poor souls became the valets of the Germans . . . swept out their mess halls, polished their boots, cleaned their bicycles. . . ." And then there were the prisoners who obeyed Vichy orders to collaborate, and were given preferential treatment. For them Ambrière reserves his deepest scorn, remembering how, when they crossed the Rhine on the return trip to France, "with languid fingers they removed the Fascist symbol they had been wearing since 1941 and pinned the cross of Lorraine in its place...