Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have always considered him the most brilliant of our younger novelists. No one of them can touch his; glowing bitterness, his style, nor the superb quality of his satire. He has yet to fuse them in a novel with carefulness of conception and profound development of character. He can become almost any kind of writer that his peculiarly restless temperament will allow...
Apparently this is a game which no statesman can afford to neglect; its influence on the destinies of man deserves more profound contemplation than our comic section artists have been wont to give, and few others have thought of it philosophically at all. Its devastating effect on family life has become traditional enough to make "golf widow" a picturesque term, and of course, it is well-known that professional men, especially doctors, commonly abandon their patients or clients for the links...
...worker for the settlement of Europe during the years of reconstruction, has gained a thorough knowledge of the situation, was the next speaker. "Language cannot describe the misery of the economic breakdown of Europe," he said. "Any work of good-will to relieve these people can have the most profound effect of any method that could be devised toward a settlement of international problems. We need a new spirit in international affairs, and with a new spurt, new things are possible. Harvard can have her share in bringing this about...
...Pope arrived on foot, dressed in white from slippers to zucchetto, preceded by the Swiss Guards, whose gorgeous uniforms owe their origin to Michelangelo. After seating himself upon the throne, His Holiness was greeted by profound obsequies from the assembled Cardinal Bishops, Cardinal Deacons and Cardinal Priests. "Exeunt Omnes," cried the Papal master of ceremonies, and all but the Cardinals departed...
...many who have sought passage with him will have many an hour on the Atlantic to reflect on questions of vital concern to civilization. In their persons, safeguarded in accordance with ancient usage, there is given to the world a profound lesson in international law. A thousand hostile commanders, any one of whom might send them to watery graves and boast of it, if actuated as the German Admiralty is actuated, will see them safely home, as in honor bound...