Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Apparently American educators are not alone in the obstacle they are constantly struggling to overcome.--"the profound ignorance of the average undergraduate". The following from the "Manchester Guardian", excerpts from a "general knowledge" examination in an English school, are eloquent enough without further comment...
...other minerals was discovered, feeble little signals were occasionally heard, and this sealed the fate of many young men. They were able to communicate with each other at rare intervals over short distances, and once in a while heard some of the large Marconi stations. The thrill was so profound, that they went at their problems with a thousand times more energy...
...discovered in "The Bowling Green", Christopher Morley's column in the "New York Evening Post". Those of his readers who are magnanimous enough to overlook the put--the definition of which is too well known to bear repetition--will see that the genial humorist has apparently hit upon a profound truth. Whether this was evolved from painful personal experience he does not say, but it is hard to believe otherwise when his distress is so evident. Indeed, were it not for the fact that Mr. Morley is himself a college graduate, and surely far-seeing enough to dodge such literary...
...hardly possible that the idea is a new one,- there is nothing profound about It, nevertheless it has not been tried and I would like to see it put to a test...
Perhaps it may be accounted for by New York's profound satisfaction in its sophistication. It feels it knows all the things anybody could know that nobody really ought to know: that virtues, civic or otherwise, are the badge of the hay-stacks: that it is big enough and powerful enough and well heeled enough and enough of a wise guy to go to the devil more times than anybody else and still survive to take pride in the achievement. The slick ness and unctuousness of Mayor Hylan, one may presume, appeal to New York as so cordially representative...