Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guide in this hazardous and admirable journey is a notebook of 90 chaotic pages in which Coleridge was accustomed to scrawl the names of books which he had read or intended to read, ideas which he considered shaping into verse, recipes for ginger-wine and other paraphernalia of a profound and poetic intellect...
...haphazard complexity and lack of coordination of any structural basis would not for a moment, I fancy, be tolerated by any of our more logical neighbors across the Channel. For all that I believe our system, or lack of system, has certain great advantages. It would be a profound mistake to scrap the essentially local and individual basis of our system in favor of some uniform logical scheme...
World Wheat Pool Conference. As so often happens to movements of profound significance and wide import, the world conference at Kansas City, Mo., last week of 200 men carrying on great wheat pools received little mention in the daily press. Nine western states of this country already have wheat pools in operation.* Their representatives were at Kansas City. So too were chiefs of the pools of Canada, Australia, Russia, Italy. From South America, Great Britain and elsewhere came messages approving the aims of this conference?to control the price throughout the world of wheat produced by no matter what country...
Valery is by reputation the defender of the conscious mind. A man of wide and profound learning, as well as a poet, and an admirer of the creations of the mind which constitute our civilization, he has set himself the problem of discussing the basis of the intellectual life. The exterior dissimilarities of the sciences and arts have lead to the belief that they are widely separated. 'These labors, however, differ only by variations from a common basis." So he goes beneath the surface, down into the depths of the mind as it is at work in propounding a mathematical...
Edinburghers thought him insane; incarcerated him in Morningside Lunatic Asylum. There he refused to eat unless he could hold his Bible in his lap, and after some months of this officials discharged him, as a nuisance. His influence on the simpler folk of the city, however, was profound. Many a sinful soul became a convert; many an enterprising man an imitator of Street Talker Flockhart...