Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...experimented-aided by that bathysophical enthusiast, the late Prince of Monaco ; by colleagues in the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences ; and by the U. S. Navy- with a battleship-steel, plate-glass-windowed chamber in which he would cause himself to be lowered to ocean depths far more profound than any living man had previously attained...
Down the Champs Elysees, to ihe profound astonishment of Parisiens, came M. le capitaine et Mme. Delingette, in a chugging six-wheel automobile, "bespattered with sand from the Sahara Desert, clay from the Niger, black earth from the Congo and yellow mud and sand from the South African veldt...
...good people go there [to Hyde Park] to say what they have to say. Cranks form, indeed, one of London's most popular free entertainment. If you do not wish to hear the bray of Communists you may walk away and listen to the more musical and equally profound bleating of the sheep in the park. If a Communist chooses to put in at the Marble Arch talking balderdash he is probably healthier than he would have been. It is intolerable that armed political bands should break the peace...
...Significance. Channeled and sped by a masterful artist, the intense lives of Leah and Eli deepen into profound currents that bear all the sorrows of their tragic, ritual-fed race. The rocks that split them, darkly inevitable, grip into the beds of their courses with roots that were when first men and women searched their souls. Told in fierce words and gentle, dull words and shining, words sweet as wild honey, words bitter as black gall-here is a Book...
...foreign-policy questions in which they may be vitally interested. Britain granted the right, but all efforts to set up political machinery to effect it have failed. The new arrangement at least facilitates communications with the Dominions, and, in the words of Premier Baldwin, "clear recognition of the profound difference between the work of communication and consultation with self-governing partner nations of the British Commonwealth and the administrative work of controlling and developing the colonies and protectorates for whose welfare this House is directly responsible...