Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stated by President Lowell, France will be benefitted very little by her act and at the same time Germany, will suffer as her industries will be crippled. In the same way all Europe is at loggerheads and what is needed today more than all else is clear, calm, and profound thought...
...accepted the invitation of the Government of India . . . because I was ready and willing to serve India in any capacity in which it might be thought I might be useful; but I am bound frankly confess that I came here a profound skeptic as to the value and utility of the League of Nations. A fortnight's acquaintance, however, with the working of the Assembly and the Commissions has made me hope my skepticism was unwarranted...
This merely indicates the overwhelming need for college men in politics. Only in the colleges has the fine art of saving nothing in a profound and impressive style been cultivated to comparable perfection. This is at once the pride of the students and the despair of he professors, but it is evident that the latter are unnecessarily perturbed. The future for those really adopt is magnificent,-the Senate awaits the true artists...
...crowded court-room in Salem over eighty years ago the prosecuting attorney, Daniel Webster, pronounced what led to death on the men being tried for the murder of Captain White. His magnetic eloquence always effective, in this case left a profound impression on the minds of his contemporaries in the triumphant climax, "There is no refuge from confession save in suicide and suicide in confession...
...Enter Madame" at the St. James Theatre this week can best be characterized as a study in temperament. It deals with Madame Lisa Della Robbia, a famous opera singer. With her many changing moods, now stormy, now sunny, yet underneath it all having a profound and unshaken love, she dominates the play and has command of every situation...