Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...both knew instinctively that the statement was true. It has grown increasingly clear to me that the statement is profound. At the moment I am a banker and excessively conservative. And I have learned that I am no exception in anything; less than in others, in that 'youth grows old'. And I wish I could be a little more "liberal". So: let the undergraduate hear the most radical men to be found, (whether bright or stupid), and let them hear a reasonable number of bright conservatives. Then perhaps when they begin the inevitable swing to the Right they will attain...
...committee appointed some time ago by the Governing Board of the Union for the considerations of speakers has as yet decided nothing. At least no statement has been issued and the result of their profound deliberations still remain a secret...
...significance of the appearance of the Yellow Book at the present time is profound. It is undoubtedly designed to influence the reparation settlement and the coming meeting between Premiers Poincare and MacDonald. The press in England, for example, has hailed it as putting a new complexion on France's Ruhr occupation...
...kindred spirit...Severely intellectual, kind and sympathetic, but unapproachable and never hearty, vigorously honest, passionately devoted to certain ideals, capable of an emotional appeal which was seldom employed--it is not strange that the two men should have been drawn together and should have had such a profound admiration for each other...
Whether we have put aside the old conviviality of the Greek to good advantage is debatable, but if our discussions are not as profound, they are at least more practical. Plato wrote of Eros; our time discusses water, which, after all, is a more comprehensible and certain subject for all of its vaporization and solidification...