Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many problems that are presented to the professional astronomer, but the distances in miles which correspond to these parallax determinations tax the imagination to conceive. The contributions of astronomy in interpreting the sky and the earth's plane in the universe have exerted a profound influence on men's thinking in all ages'. For this reason, perhaps, astronomy makes so the casual star gazer who has learned to recognize familiar groups and the brighter planets...
...Christian internationalism. The group will be under the leadership of Dr. H. C. Gossard, Senior Field Secretary of the Y. M. C. A., and a member of the Industrial service group which was conducted by Mr. Sherwood Eddy last summer. He is a teacher of note, and a profound student of social and industrial conditions in Europe. Among his other duties, he will help the members of the group to see the actual conditions existing among students in those countries in which the World's Student Christian Federation is carrying on relief work...
...would seem almost impossible to review so many plays and books on the theatre without giving away a theory of both that is "coherent" and profoundly implicated with the permanent qualities of life and art." Such a wide range of criticism, demands as all criticism demands, that same coherency and profound implication realized by Mr. Lewisohn. But in spite of all that "The Drama and The Stage" seems very much the book of the moment. It has therefore two innately good qualities. It is a record of current tendencies in the drama, and a reminder of evening spent...
...fascinating narrative from the history of the buried university has just come to light. It concerns a secret organization that was founded among the Incas at one period of the university's history, and once threatened to have a profound effect on the students. The story is preserved to us in an old pamphlet found in the Administration Building...
...knows him too well. For Anthony Patch, or alias Amory Blaine, is not one individual nor an example of one type but a condensation of all the vapors of unrest and uncertainty which, since the war, have so completely bewildered and befogged "the younger generation", Mr. Fitzgerald has a profound understanding of this phase of our day and is well qualified to write about it but after a time his refinements become almost identical with a rather morbid sort of introspection and the character he is drawing, like Werther or William Lovell, loses the right to be considered...