Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hard to understand how any one reading Goethe could ever get the idea that he had a low conception of woman. In his judgment of women he is sometimes critical, but never flippant. On the whole a profound respect of woman pervades his works...
...like your brevity. But I do not like the mystery in which you enshroud many of your news items. I wonder why you can't boil the news down in plain English-in language the average reader can understand. Why all the display of more or less profound scholarship...
...brilliant men who are drawn at the outset of their careers into the highly paid fields is providing incalculably disastrous both for American universities and for the American people. The effect is far reaching and even the standards of national thought, culture, and life itself are suffering a profound erosion. Two and a half billions of dollars in the last decade have been donated the the higher institutes of learning and imposing plants and Gothic quadrangles have sprung up on every hand. Only the reward of the vital instructor remains practically unchanged and the average full professor in American colleges...
...upon his election as a corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. This signal honor which transcends the narrow bounds of countries and continents cannot add to a reputation already established internationally, for Professor Taussig's contributions to the science of economics have already won him recognition as a profound scholar and high authority. This latest honor is the more noteworthy since of the nine Americans now holding Corresponding Fellowships of the British Academy, five are Harvard men and four of those are members of the faculty...
...National Bureau of Economic Research, after profound and lengthy researches, has recently presented statistics which go to show what everyone knew already-that average incomes in this country were apparently on the increase. The national income during 1909 is placed at 27 billion dollars and in 1913 at 32 billion; it rose gradually to a peak of 74 billion in 1920, and relapsed to 62 billion...