Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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disgrace. I offer all my wishes for the preservation of your life." Lord Ashbourne* cabled from Dublin: "Miss Gibson's family regret the incident and express profound sympathy...
High Grade Whites. Dr. R. Bennett Bean of the University of Virginia, from a profound anatomical study of races, reported that the white races are advancing in superiority over the yellow and black; if not, the yellow and black are receding. He reached this finding after dividing humanity, irrespective of color, into high, medium and low types, then subdividing these grades according to color. Among the low, those with deficient mentality and bodies, stubby fingers, slanting foreheads and other stigmata, there were relatively few whites. Not so the black and yellow...
...abolished" was changed to the present one in accordance with the request of the Harvard, Yale, and Princeton debating councils for a question of lighter nature. The subject chosen is intended to furnish an opportunity for the play of wit as well as the use of logic and profound argument...
...have not been received with due regard to their self-importance. Upper-classmen have usually, and with justice sneered at this charge or have accepted it as another distinguishing trait. That they have treated it with such levity has probably been due to superficial consideration and not to any profound Machiavellian conceit. Hence it is with pleasure that they welcome the Student Council's latest offspring, the Committee on Relations With Schools...
...beautiful and gifted Carlota, so comprehending of herself and others, impervious to a love far from satisfying? And how could Philip, the object of the love, once awake to human passion, return so inexorably to a calm monastic prison? Ever conscious of "The Cloister and the Hearth" with its profound tragedy of two ever-faithful lovers, the reader finds in the story of Philip and Carlota little to arouse emotion...