Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such a course may be discovered by an enterprising undergraduate in search of something that he can pass. And such courses are not usually difficult to pass. As an example from another field one might cite the discovery of radium, which to the scientific man was a matter of profound significance affecting the whole fabric of physical science, but the newspaper reporter could in a brief time acquire sufficient knowledge of the subject to write an article that would pass...
...presidential election, we are told, will in all probability be fought on domestic issues, and not upon the question of League of Nations or to League of Nations. This may very well be, and yet it is our profound belief that the ultimate issue to be decided by the American people at the polls in November is and must be this: In what temper and to what degree shall they forsake their old aloofness? That they will forsake it is a foregone conclusion. It is as much beyond their power to step back into isolation as it is beyond...
...profound cause for solicitude lies in the position being assumed by the new soldier's organization known as the Legion. In a way, the color of the thought of our people lies in the hands of this organization and even the fate of the country may be said to do so for the next generation. Including the great body of our young men, it is the incarnation of the patriotism and the power of idealism and realism of the American people...
...place left empty by Mr. Laski's resignation cannot easily be filled. A profound student of economics, an able teacher, and an intellectual genius, he has at the same time shown himself to be an inspiring tutor and a warm friend to those with whom his life at Harvard brought him in contact. Slandered, misquoted, and often misunderstood by those who knew him least, his keen wit and his strong personality have won for him scores of staunch friends, who, while they could not always agree with his political principles, nevertheless found his influence stimulating and in spiring...
...most promising bit of work is Mr. Low's story, "Coudreaux." It has obvious faults of immaturity, such as the attempt to treat in so few pages a profound and powerful motive in which much depends upon thorough characterization; but its author reveals an embryonic skill in tense narrative and a frequent combination of force with stylistic sobriety which imply that he has studied the best French raconteurs, especially De Maupassant. The greater part of the verse is vitiated by the common modern misconception that poetry is more a matter of highly colored language or of vapory obscurities than...