Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much interested in your Tuesday's editorial of this week, and feel that I have something to say on this subject. I wish to make it clear at once that I am doing this in the spirit of a foreign student who has developed a profound respect and affection for this institution during his two years' stay here. It is the standpoint of a graduate student and as such I hope it is not entirely out of the scope that you have set out for discussion...
...final curtain of the Harvard Dramatic Club's production of Andreyev's "Life of Man", at Brattle Hall last Tuesday evening, left a profound impression on the audience as a whole, and an impulsive desire on the individual's part to rush up and shake hands all around, with producers and actors alike, on the success of this, their supreme achievement. Last year, in "Beranger", the club undertook what many thought to be a task beyond its scope and power--and finished it with high credit to themselves. In the present instance, this courageous little group of workers entered upon...
...Profound believers in Santa Claus may possibly attribute Bonar Law's surprising generosity to the approach of Christmas. His real reasons, however, are certainly not altruistic. First of all the offer is accompanied by the hitch that France content herself with a reparation of only fifteen to twenty billion marks, a decided fall from per present demand. England is tired watching the mark coast downhill; she wants to establish trade again with Germany under conditions more certain and less fluctuating and sporadic than they are now. Facing dangerous possibilities of the complete diplomatic face-about in Black Sea affairs,--Turkey...
...visual beauty to be found in all sorts of objects and scenes in the world about us an enthusiasm which one associates with Dr. Ross not only as a painter, but also as one of the foremost collectors of the world, and as a teacher who has had a profound influence on the study of art not only at Harvard but in the country as a whole...
...rises above everything which it is possible to rise above. His arms, lightly poised in air, as he expatiates in the person of Alfred Dolittle upon "middle-class morality", express every emotion of that worthy man with inimitable gesture; his face assumes the cast of cupidity, of generosity, of profound ratiocination, of doubt, of surprise, of admiration, or of all these at once. He is an actor of character parts without peer or rival...