Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deduce from this, however, that their victories are not required while the University teams are successful. Rather should they know that the upperclassman feels a really supreme, solid contentment only when the deeds of the freshmen emulate the powers of the varsity or even exceed it. Without disputing that profound statement about the child being father to the man, one might safely advance the theory that the freshmen team is father to the varsity strange as that sounds and while exceptions have been noted, consistently, good freshmen teams usually guarantee consistently good varsity teams...
...Inquiry. The Commission of Inquiry constituted by the Council of Ambassadors (TiME, Sept. 17) to establish the exact responsibility for the Janina murders, continued its deliberations. An Albanian shepherd testified that he had been asked by the Albanian Governor of Argyrokastro " to assassinate a mission." His evidence created a profound sensation and the matter is under investigation...
...Lyman Beecher Lecturer at Yale. His appellate arguments are surpassed by those of nobody at the entire American Bar. He is in a class with men like John W. Davis, Louis Marshall, William D. Guthrie. He brings to the Senate, in addition to a profound knowledge of the law, a decided talent for convincing logical oratory, merciless in its precision and directness. He has received honorary degrees from Yale, Pennsylvania, Trinity, Pittsburgh. In addition to being a lawyer and statesman, Senator Pepper is also the author of several legal treatises of merit, and is actively interested in athletics, particularly baseball...
...left carries sleep most profound...
...Greco-Albanian frontier - General Tellini, Major Scorti, Lieutenant Conati, their interpreter and their chauffeur. The car is halted by a barricade of fallen trees. Shots ring out from the woods on either side of the road. . . . The five Italians are found dead. . . . The Greek Government expressed its profound regret to Italy. . . . The Ultimatum. The news of the murder was received throughout Italy with violent indignation. Demonstrations against Greece were reported in all provinces...