Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...while he has borrowed the bitter and concisely astringent qualities of Robinson's verse forms, he has no taste for epigram or obscuring his verse with inversions and periphrasis. His poem of the variant life-urge which derives from soil and season and harvest is of the earth earthy, profound and moving...
...journey among our sister Republics. . . . We wish only for the maintenance of their independence. . . . While we have had wars in the western hemisphere yet on the whole the record is in encouraging contrast with other parts of the world. . . . It is impossible, my countrymen, to speak of Peace without profound emotion. In thousands of homes in America, in millions of homes around the world, there are vacant chairs. It would be a shameful confession of our unworthiness if it should develop that we have abandoned the hope for which all these men died. Surely civilization is old enough, surely mankind...
...afforded by periodicals, of his views on many aspects of the world's pressing economic problems. Those writings which he has left, excellent and all-embracing as they are, represent but a scratching of the surface of his thinking. The temperament which made his judgments so wise and so profound has been a factor in costing the world the light which he could have shed upon many problems. Publication so often entails a hardening of the point of view that one of his open mind hesitates to commit himself irrevocably for fear of the disservice he may do the subject...
Without being profound, this remark was perhaps quite as characteristic and quite as adequate as the single sentence which Tycoon Morgan was persuaded to utter in 1924, just after he had granted a credit of $100,000,000 to stabilize the tottering French franc. Said he then- and could he wisely have said more?-: "France has taken the necessary steps to stabilize the situation in the face of all contingencies...
William McAndrew, refugee from stormy political seas as a onetime Super intendent of Schools in Chicago, recently suggested belladonna plasters for seasickness. As editor of the Educational Review he was mindful of a current propensity among patient pedagogs for elaborate research and profound tabulations. Placing his tongue ever so slightly in his cheek, Dr. McAndrew tabulated his belladonna-plasters-for-seasickness research as follows: Number reporting having used bella donna plasters..............6 Number reporting having escaped from sea sickness..........6 Median.................................................................................................6 Correlation............................................................................Per cent. 100 Number seen by me who said they were wearing 'em...........5 Number...