Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...despite excited advance notices by his friends, decorated with the Legion of Honor. ¶ Announced in one breath: "I feel myself enormously benefited by the insight into foreign municipal processes which was afforded me by this trip. ... In each [city] I found much to admire and many things of profound interest. . . . Summing up my impressions, I am bound to say that New York City contrasts more than favorably with the cities I have seen over here." ¶ Shouted in another breath: "So long everybody. The Eiffel Tower is a fine eyeful, but I'll be mighty glad...
...science itself with a few royal witticisms (TIME, Aug. 16, 1926). Now a real scientist was president again. The Association might get on with its business. The members settled back to attend President Sir Arthur Keith, who made every effort to transport his audience from the perfunctory to the profound...
...realization that such a disaster must be accepted as a constant risk in the operation of an active and progressive naval organization increases the profound sympathy which I desire to express on the part of the United States Navy to the Japanese Admiralty and to the families of those lost." The collisions were the second disaster in the Japanese navy to occur this August and the sixth to occur within seven years, five of which took place in the month of August. During this period the toll of lives has been more than...
...Altai mountains of Thibet and the Gobi Desert, is now the archaeological province of General Peter K. Kozlov, Russian geographer and digger persistent. Twenty years ago he found the dead city of Khara-Khoto whose last khan, Hara-Tzyan-Tzyun, buried 80 carloads of silver in a profound well before being wiped out by an Imperial Chinese army in the 13th Century. Digger Kozlov frequently revisits the region for further data. His latest expedition set out from Moscow last spring...
Other causes brought forth were: migration of church members (Congregationalists have a "follow up" system to keep account of itinerant members); the War, "with its profound political, social and industrial disturbances"; materialism, "which has brought indifference, neglect and disregard of religious obligation to the very altars of the church"; organization assessments, which induce individual congregations to prune the "inactive" membership rolls (they are taxed according to the size of their rosters...