Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the answer came from the other side of the Adriatic. In Rome, Naples, Padua; in Florence, Milan, Turin; in Bologna, Venice, Trieste and in many another city "Down with France!" and "Down with Jugoslavia!" resounded. In Rome 2,000 citizens of profound Fascist faith assembled at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier and swore blind devotion to any command of their cherished leader, Prime Minister Benito Mussolini...
...Another profound fact Professor Compton discovered. Atoms are made up of a nucleus with a positive charge of electricity and one or more electrons with negative charges. The electrons (they are all the same size no matter what the element) revolve around their nucleus in a symmetrical pattern. Hydrogen, lightest of elements, has only one electron whirling around its nuclear "sun." Heavy metals, like lead, radium and uranium, have many electrons. In some elements some of the electrons pop away from their atoms. Such elements are radioactive. X-rays can make them pop away violently. When x-rays...
...Beside the Firework-Music (written so long ago as 1749 to celebrate the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle) Stravinsky's virtuosity seemed pale, Copland's Scherzo, flimsy. Pianist Josef Hofmann gave the evening a special glitter by an interpretation of the C Minor Concerto which was more profound than Saint-Saens'music...
...influence of Percy Haughton on American football began when he played for four years on the University eleven. From that first connection is traceable the growth of a personality that was, with Walter Camp's one of the most profound forces in American sport. When radicals would have turned the game into an event of no more sporting significance than a tug-of-war, or would have made it over into a kind of outdoor basketball, his was always among the first of the restraining hands. He recognized the place of football in American sport, and would...
Besides this, the publishers "acknowledge with profound gratitude the aid of Messrs. Aesop, Wm. Howe, Rob't Herrick, Poor Robin, Chas. Warner, Ben Jonson, Plato, and Shakespeare "to mention but a few of the post mortuous contributions to this very delightful, very helpful book...