Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Deep and profound remarks were absent from Mr. William G. McAdoo's admission that he would be a candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination next year. (See page 1.) Nevertheless he delivered himself of some opinions...
Herta Breit, aged 11, paints tender little watercolors. Anneliese Freisler, 10, draws a Mrs. Profiteer with a biting touch of social satire. Ed Viet, 12, and Grete Hanus, 13, model little wax figures with a profound sense of rhythm. Franz Probst, 13, has an exciting vision of the Russian Revolution. Grete Blatny, 13, paints a Tyrolese wedding party. These young people are students in the art school of Dr. Frank Cizek in Vienna...
...Italy, however, the loud cry of "politics" is being raised. The present Minister of Education, Giovanni Gentile, a foremost philosopher, has compiled theoretical works on education that have been considered to be of profound value. Practically he finds the problem a hot one. Religion enters in, as well as the fact that more professional students are being trained than the professions can absorb. Then Signor Gentile has surprised everybody by joining the Fascisti movement-which means that he is "assisted" at every turn by Dr. Mussolini, who does not seem to know too much about education. The right...
...newspapers are apparently convinced that the public has heard enough of the "big three" and wants something bigger. Hence they have obligingly produced it. But in this case, as in fact in the whole question of a special league between the three or four universities concerned, there is a profound misconception. Harvard has athletic relations with Yale and Princeton and Dartmouth, not because of any mythical or real association or league, but because of traditional rivalry, approximate equality in size, and similarity in tradition and point of view. The idea of a sublimated tennis tournament with schedules varying from year...
...Moreux, director of the Bourges Observatory, France, in a book, The Mysterious Science of the Pharaohs, revealed the fact that the Great Pyramid of Cheops was built by possessors of most profound mathematical, geographical and astronomical knowledge, and embodies many principles which have been rediscovered by modern scientists only in the comparatively recent past. It was probably used as an observatory by Egyptian astronomers, who knew how to measure the earth, the distance between earth and sun and the length of an ideal meridian. The perimeter of the pyramid, divided by its height, gives 3.1416, the geometrical π. The number...