Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...within 30 hours, although both bitch and sire were parents of previous prize winners. Autopsies on the litters revealed diseased kidneys throughout; the external sex organs of the male pups seemed normal but the internal sex organs were definitely female in type, showing that the pituitary gland has a profound influence on sex development...
...entire nation entwines itself at this moment with ever and ever more intense affection about Your Majesty. The nation's perfect discipline will continue for the glory of the dynasty and the power of the fatherland. I beg Your Majesty to accept an expression of my profound devotion...
...Myers, writing on the Republican Party, is perhaps more profound. He seeks more after causes and issues, and naturally enough sometimes is rather hard put to find them. He tries to generalize on the principles and characteristics of one party as distinct from the other, differences perhaps more apparent than real. The presidents, from Lincoln to Coolidge, he considers both as individuals and as party leaders...
First, the Council will attempt to discover and to state the spiritual values of non-Christian systems of religion; it will review Confucianism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Islamism from a sympathetic point of view. Then it will try to reach a more profound understanding of interdependence between the younger Churches, especially in Asia, and the older Churches. Another topic to be considered is the impact of industrialism upon Asia and Africa. These are questions which have often been discussed before, though perhaps never by a group so well equipped to arrive at satisfactory answers. This is a council of commanders...
...most people, however accustomed they have become to seeing streets thronged with such swift and glittering vehicles, the automobile still seems, in a somewhat profound sense, new. It is hard for them to realize that, measured against a man's span of life rather than against the centuries during which men moved by more awkward contrivances, automobiles have existed for a long time. Yet few of the men who built the first automobiles are still alive; Maxwell, Haynes, the Dodge Brothers-these were among the most important and all of them are dead. Last week Death, in his quick...