Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Mr. Borah: "I have a profound respect for the opinions of Senator Root; I know his standing as a lawyer and a statesman, but I have a still more profound respect for the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. If the Constitution of the United States, as construed by the Supreme Court, be not the law, then there is no law. . . . "I agree with Dr. Butler that this is not a case which can be cured by the application of political soothing syrup, and certainly the Republican Party would not take a position in the next...
...appalling thing to see a great State in the full exercise of its faculties, steer deliberately toward an act of profound and irrevocable injustice. Judicial murder has often been committed by mistake, by inadvertence, or through an accidental accumulation of misleading circumstancial evidence. There is no perfect justice in human affairs. But this is not a case of stumbling in the dark while trying to see: it is a case of wilfully closing eyes to the light. It is not necessary that justice should be always achieved; it is necessary that we have the will to achieve justice...
...forego the lifetime pleasure of seeing nature with his eyes open. Ideally geology should be the avocation of every college graduate. During his daily walks, from railway train, steamer, or motorcar, he can see the earth evolving; he can see her majestic rhythms, her wonderful adaptations to life, her profound control over human history. Such permanent enrichment of life comes to the man who elects a full course in general geology. Thousands of Harvard graduates can testify to the truth of this statement. It must be remembered, too, that geology is a young science, which has only begun its cultural...
Last week the Panama Canal, inland waterway of mighty ships, might well have given a watery chuckle and gurgle; for some profound reason all U. S. officialdom seemed suddenly anxious to view...
...Profound Problem...