Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foremost rank of scholars of the problem which now confronts the British in governing India. He was the first native of India to graduate from Columbia University, and is now serving as Exchange Professor at the University of Nebraska under the Carnegie Foundation. He has made a profound duty of the sentiments of the natives towards the British, and will explain this and other phases of the present situation in this lecture...
...essential to our lives, but continues to offer us in profusion empty, antiquated, and unnecessary Cellinis, with their paraphernalia of tin swords, etc." Modern life, Andsoyer continues has withdrawn into the inner recesses of the soul, whereas the theatre has paused at the threshold of these new and profound psychological experiences and intellectual strivings--the struggle of man's thoughts with man--and has never thrown open the door that leads to them...
...considered a crime of the same degree as bootlegging, and punished accordingly. All literature of the past will be carefully expurgated, that the rising generation may be free from the danger of using strong language: for the influence of the classics upon the youth of the present is profound. The organization will not be disbanded until swearing, like the use of intoxicating liquors, is stamped out. "Hell" as Samuel Johnson once remarked, "is paved with good intentions...
...fresh in our minds to let us think for a moment that their heroic deaths were due to a cold conviction of personal advantage or enlightened self interest. They did not want to die; but they went forth knowing the danger, even courting it, from a profound sense of duty. No one shall persuade us that they did so from a traditional but irrational altruism, and that self-devotion is less worthy of admiration than we feel it to be. If anyone could so persuade, us he would rob life of that which makes, it best worth living...
This very power of the press leads to the exploitation of anything out of the ordinary. A foreigner with a bent for witty remarks becomes a tradition. He is quoted everywhere and his remarks are interpreted as penetrating and profound. This cannot help turning most men's heads. Wu-Ting-Fang discovered that his slightest utterance, even when seriously intended, caused Americans to burst into laughter. Everything he said was considered droll, subtle, or Oriental. In consequence, he said a great deal, taking a hand in politics, and communicating directly with members of Congress. When the State Department hinted that...