Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...organize the now moribund Ligue de la Republique to fight Alexandra Millerand's Bloc National and establish a policy of democratic post-War reconstruction. M. Rist has been Deputy Governor of the Banque de France for only the past year. He is one of Europe's most profound economists...
...fatheads like Cyril D. H. G. Dillington-Dowse (in TIME, June 13), who break out every once in a while with such profound absurdities, that retard closest friendship between the two English speaking nations...
...Resolved, that the Department of Arts and Archaelogy of Princeton University hereby place on record its profound satisfaction because of this happy increase in the facilities and opportunities in the division of Fine Arts at Harvard University, and here by offer its hearty congratulations to its sister department, conscious as it is, that by reason of the close and sympathetic cooperation of the two departments, the prosperity of the one so signally insured by the completion of the new Fogg, cannot fail to be a stimulus and encouragement to the other, and be it further resolved that a copy...
...sincerely hope you will soon get through printing such atheistic fulminations as that of Stanley B. Altman [TIME, May 30] .... Personally I am a profound believer in God and religion; but if I were to lose my faith, I certainly would not want to disturb the faith of others. I agree with Robert Quillen who says that there is a mean streak in anyone who tries to destroy the faith of another...
...Author displays an intellect profound, searching, inclusive, an artistry profound and subtle in all his works. These in translation have been Royal Highness, ironic comment on the life of kings; Death in Venice, three short stories; Buddenbrooks, monumental saga of the 19th Century. Son of a merchant, Herr Mann had to write secretly at first, functioning ostensibly as a life insurance salesman...